That's the root of the problem; we no longer have teachers, we have 'educationists' . And Greenwood, Mississippi just isn't on the list of venues in which 'educationists' wish to ply their trade, whatever that may be:
"No one wants to teach these days, least of all in Greenwood, Mississippi," says Principal George Noflin, who made the journey to India in June this year by tying up with a recruiting agency after failing to hire locally.It was his first visit to India and he found the heat stifling, the poverty unbearable, the food dodgy, and the driving insane.
"But the quality of teachers, it was unbelievable," he says. He interviewed 85 in the week he was there and hired three. A fellow educationist from Kansas on the same trip hired three.
Noflin wants to go back for more.
Apparently, it's now considered normal and acceptable to import teachers from the Indian Subcontinent in order to teach the denizens of the Mississippi Delta how to cipher their sums, something which 'educationists' apparently can't be bothered to do. The patent absurdity (not to mention pathos) of the situation aside, it remains to be seen what effect exposure to the entrenched nomenklatura of American public school systems - whose exertions in the service of stifling any innovation which might possibly erode their perquisites far exceed any time spent on such trivial matters as teaching children to add and subtract, or even their own members to read and write - will have on the quality and outlook of the erstwhile immigrants.
Personally, my money's on the teacher's unions.
