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[Serious_Fun]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/education/27esl.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

That's what volunteers are for: to do the public jobs that they want to do out of a desire to do good- and to do it for free (but they don't have actual training or anything like that) while their upper middle-class spouse earns enough for them both. That way, goverments don't need to pay anybody, and people who want to teach English and have the training that the programmes themselves say they want end up overseas-often in language schools with very little focus on teaching but a lot on selling poorly made textbooks at inflated prices to students in order to make a living wage.

At least that's how it goes in Canada.

[guangho]

Corporate voters and contributors are trying the impose the business world model on education (sales and performance quotas, customer service, layoffs, slashing benefits etc) and the easiest place to start is ESL (and special ed) because those are the two groups of students no voter gives a rats ass about.