Grit In The Gap

Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award because the union is too cozy with TFA.

leightd:

thanksandyes:

We’re officially in Wonderland.

Well of course teachers with more intensive training are preferable, but unfortunately they don’t want to work in the schools and districts that TFA often places in! The school I work in shows the need for TFA teachers: this year, approximately 1 of every 3 staff members quit, and the majority of the staff is now made up of TFA teachers (who have worked there all year, and most the year previously as well) who will not quit. I know that hiring is different in every region, but without TFA, there would be hundreds of classrooms in New Orleans without teachers.

I wish that people who entered education through the traditional pathways were less snippy about TFA’s existence.