For my kids sake, I hope not. Maybe some of the Indians that have been here a while will speak pretty good english or if they are specifically trained to be better at it. I had a bad experience in college with two Indian TAs teaching some math class and a physics lab. I couldn't understand much of what they said. On reflection, I should have asked for my money back for those classes. <<<<<<<<>>>>> Then again, that physical presence doesn't need to know anything more than Crowd Control and how to operate the machinery. We may yet see our education outsourced to India, with the actual teachers in India and the unskilled manual laborers taking care of the classrooms. And with the "guest worker" program, we may end up seeing America's classrooms staffed by unskilled Mexicans (who know how to shout down a classroom and also how to turn the monitor on and off) and video-linked Indian teachers, with born or naturalized Americans only holding administrative positions in the schools. Brian Kelsay