Thursday, January 5, 2012
“Three years ago, a Teach For America recruiter plastered the Fordham campus with flyers that said “Learn how joining TFA can help you gain admission to Stanford Business School.” The message of that flyer was “use teaching in high-poverty areas a stepping stone to a career in business.” It was not only profoundly disrespectful to every person who chooses to commit their life to the teaching profession, it advocated using students in high-poverty areas as guinea pigs for an experiment in “resume-padding” for ambitious young people.”

Why Teach For America Is Not Welcome in My Classroom | LA Progressive (via chandapw)

This. Some people for TFA came to my Teaching in America class and were incredibly offensive and ignorant when they talked about the “poverty stricken” areas and children they worked with. Ugh it pissed me off so bad

(via floralfrenzies)

I appreciate when people recognize a) that this program, though that is not to say all participants IN this program, often uses students as a stepping stone to other careers, and b) that this incubator-of-innovation mentality can reduce students to little more than tokens of poverty or lab rats for educational experiments, rather than people.

(I would have said guinea pigs, but I bet monasequeda would have taken issue seeing as she treats her guinea pigs like family.)
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