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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

@TeachForAmerica Airlines: Fly Us! We Build Plane in Air | Cloaking Inequity

@TeachForAmerica Airlines: Fly Us! We Build Plane in Air | Cloaking Inequity:



@TeachForAmerica Airlines: Fly Us! We Build Plane in Air

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“I fly a lot,” he says. “Let’s say you go to the airport and you have a choice of three different pilots. One has trained for 30 hours online, the second has five weeks in the summer, and the third has studied, become certified and has spent a year as an intern. Which airplane would you choose?”
So I asked major airlines on Twitter if they would hire pilots without a license or experience, but who were very intelligent. Here is what they told me.Screen Shot 2014-09-07 at 2.43.36 PM
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So there you have it. Could the airlines have said it any better? If I want to be a pilot for a major airline, well, being bright, uncertified and lacking training just won’t work out for me. Unless of course I want to fly for Teach For America Airlines.
So JCrew has apparently has a new t-shirt contest open only to students of Teach For America teachers. I know that I @TeachForAmerica Airlines: Fly Us! We Build Plane in Air | Cloaking Inequity: