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It's more alarming that US doesn't have enough skilled teachers in the nation that we have to hire from overseas.

Education is an investment to the future generation and must not be overlooked.

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That’s not even remotely the case. We just don’t have enough people willing to move to rural Alaska.

...for the given price.

I'm sure the supply will go up if extra $$$ is paid.

Except you'll have to spend way more than $100,000 to incentify US citizen from a city to move there and stay.

And they not gonna have the same near slave H1B conditions where changing their job is just impossible..

H1B workers in IT even have an option to find a new visa sponsor, but nobody needs foreign teacher with H1B in California or Texas or basically anywhere else.

I have to wonder if some kind of fly in fly out arrangement like is used for a lot of other jobs in undesirable locations would work. I've got a friend who's a nurse/paramedic in an indigenous community in the australian outback, and he works 6 weeks in the community with a per diem and company house, and then has 6 weeks to travel or live in Brisbane between stints. A school could do quarterly swaps of teachers, so there's a Q1/Q3 teacher and a Q2/Q4 teacher each working 9 weeks at a time.

$100K would certainly garner tons of prospects. Rural schools around me only pay $30K

Not sure Alaska with it's threadbare tax regime is going to do that.

I really think y’all are underestimating the reality of living in rural Alaska. I wouldn’t take a job there unless I had literally no other livable options.

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