Tre Tennyson spent two years with Teach for America at an Atlanta school and is planning now to teach in China.
He wrote this piece in response to a former TFA at the same APS school where he taught who wrote about why she bailed out of the program a year early.
Olivia Blanchard's "I Quit Teach for America" in the Atlantic has gotten a lot of attention, including here on the blog.
I predict Tennyson's piece will command equal attention.
By Tre Tennyson
Last week, I came across a provocative headline: “I Quit Teach for America.”
As an alum of TFA, it caught my attention. And when I saw the author’s name, I clicked eagerly. Contributor Olivia Blanchard and I were fifth grade teachers at Dobbs Elementary before she made the decision she details in her piece.
We went through the same training, taught in the same school,
