Comment by culopatin
11 days ago
It’s a matter of incentives. The avg American grows up with certain “American dream” that clashes with that rural America life. There is no incentive to leave everything behind and go be basically alone. Immigrants have a “lower” baseline or just want the experience of being abroad, or are willing to put up with rural living because from wherever they are, it looks better. You’d have to entice a city teacher to move to rural America.
You’ll say “pay them more”. But who are you taxing more? Because no one is happy when the gov starts looking at being more efficient and starts laying off some admin people either.
Teachers were like 4% of all H1Bs. Using CS/AI H1B proceeds to increase pay to rural teachers more seems like a no-brainer. The current Alaskan teacher pay seems to be below median, which seems like an good threshold to disallow H1B workers altogether.
Have you considered the possibility that H1B teachers are simply better (at any price point) ?
H1B proceeds go to fund USCIS and its staff, they do not go towards local school districts.
This whole discussion is full of racists and haters who dont know anything about the subject beyond clickbait titles
>Have you considered the possibility that H1B teachers are simply better (at any price point) ?
That sounds sort of racist, actually.
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"H1B teachers are simply better"
Considering the overwhelming demographics of H1B visas are massively racially different from the US, this is Racism, pure and simple.
This is the undercurrent of H1B immigration: people who harbor racism against the US's predominate demographic doing anything they can to scam the system and enrich themselves no matter the cost to others.
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Are teaching and software engineering even job categories that overlap enough that they should compete for the same pool of visas?
It seems to me things would be better if they were classified as different visa categories.