I Love The Smell Of Test Prep In The Morning
"What kind of training?" "Diversity training, Sir!"
Teach For America recently launched a new initiative to recruit military veterans to become TFA teachers. With the catchy slogan “You Served For America Now Teach For America,” this campaign has gotten attention in various news sources like The Huffington Post.
Just the way college students do TFA as a way to do something ‘good’ before going on to their eventual profession — or even, for some, becoming career teachers, military veterans are in a similar position as new college graduates. Now I don’t want to seem like a Grinch or anything — and I’m willing to compliment TFA when they do something smart like, for instance, the ‘teach beyond two’ campaign — but this idea is very, very, unenlightened.
If military veterans want to become teachers, and I’m all for that, what is the benefit of doing it through TFA?
Just the way college students do TFA as a way to do something ‘good’ before going on to their eventual profession — or even, for some, becoming career teachers, military veterans are in a similar position as new college graduates. Now I don’t want to seem like a Grinch or anything — and I’m willing to compliment TFA when they do something smart like, for instance, the ‘teach beyond two’ campaign — but this idea is very, very, unenlightened.
If military veterans want to become teachers, and I’m all for that, what is the benefit of doing it through TFA?