Reply #26: I'm that experienced veteran teacher you're talking about. The TFA teacher make a serious difference

[Bucky]

"Bimbos"? Really? If you could arrest your bitter misogyny for a moment, I'd like you to listen to experience, not ideology-driven prefabricated theories. I know TFA teachers. I work with them. They are good for the profession. Those who stay in the profession end up earning the same amount as other teachers after a couple of years, so it's not really "on the cheap." Most of them do stay on, by the way, and make careers of it. Every single TFA teacher I've met, every single one of them, has been an exemplary professional teacher. They produce good results and I see good learning going on their classes. Whatever they're doing in that program really is amazing.

I kid you not. This is based on my observation as a mentor and as someone deeply committed to seeing kids learn and develop the skills, knowledge, and maturity to be successful in life. That's my agenda. Whatever promotes that is a good thing.

Are you a teacher, by the way? I ask this because you don't seem to be referencing actual classroom experience in stating your opinions here, and I'm curious about where you got such a starkly negative opinion about TFA.