Expensive mistakes

I walked out of last night's event with a colleague from one of our suburbs. I asked him, "So, when are you guys going to bring Teach for America to your town?"
And then when we stopped laughing...
Because this is another bright idea that we're inflicting on high poverty students who can least afford it. The suburbs are not going to stop hiring well-educated, well-trained, experienced teachers for scantily trained college grads with no experience. That would be ridiculous.

Not to mention that paying TFA $5000 per corps member (over and above a step 1 teacher's salary) is a complete waste of public funds.