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A former Temp for America "teacher" tells the truth about the program.

The philosophy underlying TFA is that any damned fool can get into a classroom and "teach" and not need preparation to go into classrooms. Experience is not necessary, especially when dealing with poor children.

Naturally this program should be found illegal because poor children are being denied their constitutional right to equal education opportunities. Putting ill-prepared and unqualified people in these classrooms--especially at a time when there are tens of thousands of fully certified teachers out of work--is wrong.
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Jose Ochoa got himself coldcocked by an armed rooster and it cost him his life.

Ochoa and Steve Irwin: Two birds of a feather.