tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6178330661968922056.post8482943559008304704..comments2024-03-09T03:53:10.077-05:00Comments on NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR CONNECT: Plea To Teach For America First-Year Teachers in Chicago: Refuse Placement in Neediest SchoolsBetsy Combierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16854478415247528997noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6178330661968922056.post-6082655613044358032013-09-13T19:01:09.513-04:002013-09-13T19:01:09.513-04:00There is no question of the accuracy of this artic...There is no question of the accuracy of this article. Even if the new volunteer is ready to trade altruistic motives for what amounts to physical and mental cruelty at the the hands of overzealous TFA commandants in Institute, they haven't begun to experience the time of their lives wasted on the selling of TFA as a cult at the expense of education. TFA recruits are indoctrinated with the concept that they are better than teachers with mounds of specialized education and years of experience. They are encouraged to marginalize traditional and proven education models for a "one-size-fits-all" method of teaching. TFA dehumanizes education for the purpose of altering statistics used by the government, in an eternally failing effort to compare American scores against Finland and other top homogenous societies that have the intrinsic culture to succeed. TFA is about TFA. Having completed one year of this debacle, I returned to traditional methods to obtain my degree in education and credentials. My year with TFA was, bar-none, the least productive year of my life. It will be for anyone else that believes in themselves more than an over-hyped self-serving political organization with a monetary and dangerously liberal agenda. If you have no other reason to avoid TFA. Do it for the children of America. A full generation of rubber-stamped failures have already been victimized by TFA. It would be criminal to allow this to happen to another generation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com