"Teacher, teacher, the Filipinos are poor...

The philippines is filled with poor people, teacher..."

These are the common insults that you will get from teaching those kids. They would even pour out cash from their wallets (literally. Ben did that to me the other day) to prove to you that we are poor, they are rich. They are just little kids, of course I could not hold that against them. Evidently, that is a part of the pedagogy that they have acquired claiming to be coming from a "First World" country.

They came here for only one important reason: the Filipino's talent that was acquired from our age-old history of subjugation by our colonizers. Speaking English as a second language and possessing the system of education that we have right now. truly, we still hold that our education system is rotten. the percentage of our out of school youth, the cramped up classrooms in public schools and the very expensive "quality" instruction from private schools with up to the ceiling tuition (there are exceptions of course...) which they could probably afford. Even the PUP Lab High, which boasts of its good students and instruction, exceeded the ideal classroom size for conducive learning.

Now what? They came here to seek us share this talent and get their Filipino mentors to teach them the language which everybody believes would help them survive the present world. It is not just simply teaching the language. It is helping them invest for the future of their country (or so they believe). In exchange, what we get are very meager salaries and arrogant insults from their kids. They haven't taught them the value of respect and treating everyone as equals. They are proud upon trampling upon our intellectuals not knowing that we are almost giving away our talents through charity.

In the future, after the transfer of talent and knowledge has been successful, they would be coming back, with more to ask for and with the authority to exploit more than what our human resources could give; not looking back to the teachers who have painstakingly taught them the language.

They are not to blame after all. Have they known that they are not supposed to do so? The State could do nothing but to welcome them with open arms and encourage them more to invest (I'd rather say "exploit").