Film showcases immigrant teachers

A new PBS movie tells the story of immigrants from Philippines who are teachers here. - - Donna Poisl

by Robert Nott | The New Mexican

Ramona S. Diaz aims to reveal a different side of the immigrant's face in her new documentary, The Learning, by focusing on "the professional." "You hear about the immigrant as day laborer, but this provides a face to the career woman," she said.

The Learning follows the one-year sojourn of four Filipina teachers who migrate to Baltimore to work in the school system there. The women realize that they need to embrace this new life in order to move forward, while their students realize that they need these initially-strange outsiders to lead them. "You have to be here next year," one inspired teen girl tells Dorotea, one of the four protagonists. "There's so much you taught us to do."
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