Obama pal Bill Ayers calls Teach for America 'a fraud'

Weather Underground terrorist-turned-academic and Obama confidant William Ayers is taking up a cause near and dear to teachers unions: bashing a program that sends young, idealistic college grads into the inner city to teach poor kids.

The nonprofit Teach for America is a "fraud" whose participants are nothing but “educational tourists,” said Ayers, a onetime associate of President Obama who was a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago before retiring. The 68-year-old firebrand, now a self-styled educational theorist, said the program's young grads are merely passing through the gritty neighborhoods where they serve to pad their resumes at the expense of longer-term educators represented by unions.

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Ayers is right. We have those (Teach for America ) teachers come out to the res to teach and are gone in two years. All they want is to pad their resume. That is a well known fact out here.

 

And all these teachers with Teach for America are extreme liberals.