Thursday, June 2, 2011

"China teacher"

Our local paper attempted some investigative reporting into a school district fiasco: "Cost of China teacher for a year: $17,815". There are a few things I'd like to highlight:

1) It should be "Chinese teacher". Must be our unpolished, ungrammatical McDowell County dialect (and way of thinking).

2) The paper/school board/community has repeated attacked the individual teacher, which shames me as a resident/teacher/American.

3) The nice way to say it is the community harbors "resentment of former textile workers towards China". And so you take a stand against a Chinese teacher? Does that even make sense? Yet, you will continue to shop at Walmart and buy all those Made in China, cheap, plastic crap for those everyday low prices. I wonder what drives outsourcing more: guest teachers or your consumerism?

4) Our superintendent is trying to dig his way out of this one.

A while ago, Nakia joked, "Guess you'll be our only Chinese teacher now." Well, half the district thinks I am her anyway....

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