Yesterday I watched a documentary called The Learning. It focused on four Filipino teachers who came to Baltimore to teach science, math and special education in the school district. Baltimore is one of many school districts who at the time went and hired teachers from the Philippines. It was a great documentary, hard to watch at times, realizing how much these teachers were leaving behind to come across to the USA to get more pay, in order to better the lives of themselves and their loved ones back in the Philippines. I have to do more research to find out where in the Philippines each of the women was from and there are related videos that hopefully will let me know, a year or two on, how they are doing.
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author: Helen Haskell
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