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05-14-2015 02:04 PM |
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Originally Posted by Valiant
(Post 11499574)
I have 3 tfa teachers on my kickball team. The 2 cute under 25 females are quitting at the end of the year. Parents of the inner city kids and admins stressing them out. They both make low 40s. I told them to go to suburban but they want to enter corporate america.
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Yeah. Teach for America is really screwing up the education profession in a lot of ways. Lots of well meaning "do gooders" get in and distort the reality of the education situation because they're not actually in it for the long haul. Then policy makers shape all these policies based on the stories of TFA people, which isn't really making teaching sustainable as a profession.
You have all these feel good stories surrounding inner city or rural impoverished schools about some teacher who comes in as part of TFA and changes lives and commits their heart and soul to teaching (thank Dangerous Minds, the movie) and puts in all these extra hours and shit. But the fact is that those people often burn out and last for a couple of years before moving on.
We have a local charter school that uses TFA people up like crazy. They work insane hours and are all super passionate about their jobs... or appear to be. For some reason, though, their teacher turnover rate is through the roof.
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