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Wait, he was 'bonded' for 1000$ as a school teacher?


Could someone explain this?

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Yeah, I remember back in the 1960s and 70s the NSW Department of Education would pay prospective teachers a scholarship to attend university and get their teaching degrees - but then they were bonded to the Department of Education for a certain number of years.

My mother actually did this but got out of it somehow when she found that she wasn't well suited to teaching.

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Some US states have something analogous for medical doctors: they'll pay your medical school tuition/fees at a state medical school, but in return you have to work as a primary care physician in an "underserved" district (i.e. backwoods or urban slum) for several years where all of your patients are on Medicaid.

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