Be Careful - Secondary Teacher Teach for America Employee Review

- A LOT of corps members view this as a stepping stone to pad their resumes - A LOT of corps members have hurtful prejudices against low income communities or students of color, due to lack of prior exposure - TFA summer training is only 4 weeks. It is essentially, for all practical purposes, useless My biggest gripe with this program, is that a handful of students made my life hell. My other 90 students were fine, but with these 5 in one class admin refused to assist me. They would consistently use racial slurs against me, throw things at me, and physically get violent with me. I made TFA aware of this and they did absolutely nothing to help me. Corps members are going into schools that are in dire need of experienced educators, not fresh "elite" college graduates who essentially have to learn teaching on the fly. They preach they are for racial equity, but they treat their corps members of color, at least in my region, like tokens.