Comment by jojobas
10 days ago
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.
It is not racist, but it is true. The Education major is one of the bottom majors, Americans with the lowest grades and lowest SAT scores go on to become public school teachers. and it is well known information among Americans themselves.
https://x.com/marcportermagee/status/1954326425072546055/pho...
https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/2023-total-group-...
while foreigners on H1B are top percentile in academic performance and scoring and generally H1B attract top 1% talent from the global talent pool, especially given there are only like 60k visas issued per year.
People who look at the stats objectively should be the first ones to advocate for more H1B teachers, if that meant children would get dramatically better education
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Americans are every race. How could it be racist?
"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.
I have provided data below. US teachers have an extremely low bar
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.