Nov 09 2011

Allegedly 72% of TFAers “stay in education”…

by parus

But only 28% as teachers. According to TFA, anyway.

I keep hearing about corps members having left or planning to leave classroom teaching to go into “education policy” and it honestly makes me queasy.

Am I missing something here? Someone convince me that it’s a positive thing that people who taught for like two years, and either didn’t like it enough or weren’t good enough at it to stick with it, will make decisions about what happens in my classroom.

Maybe I should edit this to make it more charitable. I don’t know.

 

Categories: Teach For America · 5 Comments

5 Responses

1. Tom

   Perhaps those people just have a comparative advantage making policy and are doing the most good that they can with their skills.

   on November 10, 2011 at 9:23 am · Reply
   • parus

     If TFA wasn’t such a Dunning-Kruger fest, this idea would be a lot more reassuring.

     on May 20, 2012 at 2:50 pm · Reply
2. Alohagirl

   I don’t think you need to be more charitable. I just had to endure a TFA online “meetup” where I had to listen to 2 22 year olds with a grand total of 3 months of teaching experience talk about how good they felt about themselves because no matter how bad they were, at least they weren’t as bad as the other “old, boring” teachers at their school. With a mindset like that, can’t wait for these kids to put in their 2 cents on education policy after 2 years in the classroom (if they stayed any longer, of course, then they would just get old and boring…)

   on November 14, 2011 at 10:23 pm · Reply
3. mches

   You need to post more (in my opinion).

   on January 21, 2012 at 9:51 am · Reply
4. Deborah

   This is why I stay. Teaching doesn’t “come easy” to me, but I am determined to become good at it, because only then will I feel ready to tackle issues at a different level.

   on April 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm · Reply