TFA: Temps For African-American Children

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In the poorest schools of America where the best, seasoned teachers are needed to teach children from malignantly neglected communities, we find concentrations of Teach for (Awhile) America's Tier 1 temps, fresh from their 5 week teacher preparation program and eager to learn to teach on the children of the poor. When they finish their two year stint, most of the survivors will take their sterling resumes on to law school or business school, along with a lifetime indoctrination as "Corps Members" into the unveiled mysteries of corporate education reform.

Some, in fact, will return after getting their MBAs to become KIPP CEOs, or principals as they were once called. They will then lead other temps to become members of the total compliance sects that are viewed by conservatives and neolibs, alike, as the modern-day solution to the "Negro problem," as it was called back in the 19th Century when elites used similar measures to indoctrinate freed slaves to accept their second class status and to view slavery as the institution that had saved them from moral ruin (see James Anderson's book.

Would these Ivy League temps be acceptable teachers in the leafy suburbs? Would soccer moms allow their Seths and Caitlins to be subjected to the mind-controlling charter work camps without libraries, art rooms, gyms, cafeterias, clinics? You have got to be kidding, right?

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