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Waste of time, way better opportunities out there - Teacher Teach for America Employee Review

1.0
18 June 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good training, they make it easy to relocate.

Cons

They try to brainwash you with incredibly far-left ideologies. If you even have a hint of disagreement, they will sit you down to talk to you. TFA staff take certain liberal and extreme-left assumptions and ideas to be law, there is no room for debate. TFA promotes open discussions on these sort of topics, and then they give you a "talking to" if you ever disagree with them and support your own answer. They'll tell you to share your experience with them with 100% confidentiality, and then tell their managers to set a meeting with you about what you said if it doesn't align with their ideology. You basically just have to pretend to agree with everything they say during training so you can finally go on to do the job after. Yes, all of your co-workers at your actual job will then hate you for being trained to be a pretentious "safe-space" educator. Most people are just trying to pad their resumes so they can go into politics or law school. Others are just bleeding heart "save the kids!" teachers who are ready for a life of poverty. Pay is 40k and teachers are treated like peasants. If you are qualified to join TFA, you're probably qualified to find another opportunity and make 3 times a teacher's salary.

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