Ditching TFA

Since Teach for America is such a lousy program and has long outlived its usefulness, TFA critics and some alumni of the program are organizing a "summit" to get rid of it.

I have argued it is likely illegal anyway because of the disparate treatment children in Title I schools get for teachers in the classroom versus those children in wealthier neighborhoods.

It is a thinly-veiled message that poor children don't need as good a teachers to teach them because these kids will never amount to anything anyway.

TFA is basically racist and classist.

Snip:

Teach for America recruits new college graduates, gives them five weeks of summer training and then places them in some of America’s neediest urban and rural schools as teachers, under the assumption that five weeks is enough to turn out an effective teacher. It asks that its recruits commit to two years in the classroom.

Critics says that high-needs students, who are the ones who get TFA teachers, are the children who most need veteran teachers. In fact, some veterans are now losing their jobs to TFA corps members, because TFAers are less expensive to hire, and some school teaching communities are becoming less cohesive because TFA members promise only to stay for two years and leave teaching at a greater rate than traditionally trained teachers. School reformers love the program, and the Obama administration has awarded it tens of millions of dollars, despite a lack of independent research showing that its teachers are largely effective.

Another reason Obama is a teacher-hating asshole.