Word: texeira
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...into Boston and take the jobs of real live, incumbent teachers. Their arrogance is appalling.” Stutman also added that Boston public schools, which do not have a shortage of “qualified candidates,” has no need for TFA teachers. But Elizabeth A. Texeira ’09—one of the record-breaking 50 Harvard students who will join TFA next fall—said she believes Boston could benefit from the program. “I think there’s always going to be some resistance to change when...
...applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected and joined the program. Thirty-three of them were from Harvard.‘HAPPY AND STABLE’Those seniors who have already committed to TFA say they are eager to begin their two-year tenures with the program.Elizabeth A. Texeira ’09, who will be teaching in New Orleans, said she “literally [had] not stopped celebrating” since being accepted, despite encountering some resistance from family and hometown acquaintances.“People said to me, ‘Why are you wasting...