Kristof: Teach for the World

[tonysam]

Oh, my fucking god. It's like these pundits get all of their talking points from the venture philanthropists, i.e., crooks.

Peace Corps and Teach for America represent the best ethic of public service. But at a time when those programs can’t meet the demand from young people seeking to give back, we need a new initiative: Teach for the World.

In my mind, Teach for the World would be a one-year program placing young Americans in schools in developing countries. The Americans might teach English or computer skills, or coach basketball or debate teams.

The program would be open to Americans 18 and over. It could be used for a gap year between high school and college, but more commonly would offer a detour between college and graduate school or the real world.

The host country would provide room and board through a host family. To hold down costs, the Americans would be unpaid and receive only airplane tickets, a local cellphone and a tiny stipend to cover bus fares and anti-malaria bed nets.

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The Peace Corps already exists for teaching in developing countries, dickhead. The LAST thing we need is for crooks to make money off of poor countries' kids. TFA is a private outfit, the Peace Corps is public.

And of course, me being the cynic can see any TFA crap overseas would undermine teachers in those countries.

[mzteris]

1. TFA is a non-profit charity engaged in

National Service.

"Teach for the World" is just a wishful thinking idea that Nicholas Kristoff (the writer of the article) tossed out.

There ARE other organizations besides the Peace Corps that does do "overseas" service/teaching .

And, there have been for quite some time "teacher service organizations" here in America before TFA was established.

What do you have against PHILANTHROPY anyway?

Oh, wait . . .