And TFA teachers often have much greater difficulties than low bank balances.
Harding says other teachers sometimes resent the TFA Corps.
"One school had a TFA backlash," Harding says. The message she got was, "If you're only here for two years why invest a lot of time into you?"
Regional differences can also affect the new teachers. TFA placed Harding in a school with a segregated homecoming court for the black and white students.
The Road Less Traveled
"I'm not ready to go to graduate school and this seems like a way to help people, " said Thomas K. Sylvester '00. "This is the thing I really wanted to do, but I've heard negative things too, like people in over their heads."
Jessie M. Amberg '00, who is also a Crimson editor, said she is unsure of her plans but is interested in doing some teaching next year.
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