Reply #7: Of course young people without the education and skills

[LWolf]

to do the job, who don't plan to make a life-long career of teaching will do a better job than real teachers! :sarcasm:

I got a visit last fall from a former student. He should be graduating from high school this June, except that he transferred from the regular high school to the local alternative school because he was failing. He's likable and capable, but lazy. In middle school, his mom still wielded enough influence to ride herd and make sure he performed to a minimum standard. In high school, that alternative school was a last ditch effort to earn enough credits to graduate. He'd become too interested in his friends and their band to remember to show up for class or turn in assignments.

He checked in to let me know how he was doing, and told me he wanted to "do TFA." One of the options they talked to him about at the alternative high school for people who are failing regular high school.