When I got home from my morning at Marquette yesterday, I mentioned that at lunch--the program I teach with offered us a working lunch as part of the teacher orientation day--the dining hall was full of Teach for America kids. I think my exact words were something like, "It looked like the yuppie cloning machine had been stuck on high."
This line from the paper this morning surprised me, then:
A quick glance around the room reveals a racially diverse group.Here's Michael Sears's photo accompanying the story; maybe you can see the "diverse" faces in the photo better than I can.
(Click through to the paper's story at some point for the bigger photo. Or, heck, go out to the newsstand and buy one. Newspapers are a dying medium, so it surely will be a collector's item some day, worth at least as much as a Bryan Clutterbuck rookie card.)Or maybe the "diverse" nature of the group stems from the fact that there are alumni from both Notre Dame and Wesleyan.
Look, you all know how I feel about TfA. I suppose it's better, in many ways, to give these beleaguered Ivy-Leaguers jobs this way than letting more of the clog them unemployment lines. And, as lily-white as I am, I should hardly be talking. But Milwaukee's teachers do not currently reflect the look of the students very well, and this isn't going to bring us any closer.
I do wish these kids the best of luck, and hope they stick around longer than just a couple of years.
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