Reply #91: my experience w/ TFA - one person good, another not, both left after a year [View All]

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Both young women worked in an inner city school with a BAD reputation that was taken over by a charter school company. One woman was very competent, if inexperienced and understandably making mistakes at times, but she applied to law school almost immediately after she started teaching there. Second woman was obese with a drinking problem. She was always eating and making a mess of the room, plus she was in a bad mood 1/2 the time and many of the kids were ticked off with her.

When another teacher and I started the school year, we discovered mouse droppings in the little room used for food/coffee and it was filthy. We were always cleaning it, yet these two women never helped. I guess they're still used to mommy doing it for them.

In contrast, there was a young male teaching intern who I also worked with, who was fantastic. He was in a special ed teacher training program and had to work full time for free as part of his training. He was the best of the three and I would have hired him in an instant if I could have.