Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major

[Hannah Bell]

NEW YORK—Teach For America, a national program that recruits recent college graduates to teach in low-income rural and urban communities, has devoured another ethnic-studies major, 24-year-old Andy Cuellen reported Tuesday.

"Look, the world is a miserable place," said Cuellen, a Dartmouth graduate who quit the TFA program Monday morning. "All people—even children—are just nasty animals trying to secure their share of the food supply. I don't care how poor or how rich you are, that's just a fact. I'm sorry, but I have better things to do than zoo-keep for peanuts."

"Oh, I'd say we burn through a hundred or so ethnic-studies majors each year," said Anderson, pointing to a series of charts showing the college-major breakdown of TFA corps members. "They tend to last a little longer than women's studies majors and art-therapy students, but Cuellen got mashed to a pulp pretty quickly. It usually takes ethnic-studies majors another year to realize that they're wasting their precious youth on a Sisyphean endeavor."

Continued Anderson: "Of course, we don't worry about it too much. Every year, there's a fresh crop to throw in the grinder. As we speak, scores of apple-cheeked students are hearing about TFA for the first time." According to Anderson, a small portion of these students will lose interest after hearing horror stories from program alumni.

"But the majority of them will march on like cattle to the slaughter, thinking that pure determination and hope can change young lives," Anderson said. "I can hear their footsteps now, marching toward our offices like lemmings to a cliff. And believe me, we're ready for 'em."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/teach-for-america-chews-up-spits-out-another-ethni,1293/

[ChoralScholar]

1. Wow... I'm surprised that was from the Onion. EOM

[RandomThoughts]

2. The argument between Jeferson and Hamilton is shown in the start of that article.

Hamilton believed people were mostly bad, and had to be controlled by a ruling class, he even supported monarchy. Of coarse he was unable to see he was a person also, and how if a class does not have same levels of justice they become worse then the people they say are mostly bad.

Jefferson believed people were mostly good, and that with education and democracy society would be better off. The more people that participate, and the more they know, the better parts of most people could be shared making for an even better society.


Much of the discussions is about the question. Are people mostly good, or mostly bad. There is also a group that hates people, and a group that likes people, that effects peoples feelings on that issue also, and has to do with despair and hope.


Read the end of that article. How does it get you to feel? It is the type of comment creating the conditions it speaks of.

Accepting wrong and giving up, is what creates the feeling that you have to give up.



(And I am still due beer and travel money, and many experiences.)




Bring it on, we are hopeful and ready, it wont end in despair.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k & r