Michelle Malkin exposes Teach for America, tax-funded 'recruiting center for militants'

https://twitter.com/LadyLiberty1885/status/608648869484855296

An opinion piece by Michelle Malkin published in Townhall today and in the New York Post makes what should be some shocking allegations, but unfortunately, the idea that a taxpayer-funded government program further sustained by tax-deductible charitable donations could quickly abandon its initial mandate and take a sharp turn to the Left is all too familiar.

Time to defund Teach for America’s professional, taxpayer-subsidized agitators ==> http://t.co/1wkx5BOhpd

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 10, 2015

@michellemalkin not just from taxpayers – TFA has recd over $700Million in funding from private fdns incl Walton Family

— DangerGirl (@DangerGirl6) June 10, 2015

Teach for America, for example, was founded in 1989 to place college graduates in low-income neighborhoods on short-term tours of duty. Several graduates of the program, though, seem to move on into anything resembling teaching.

@michellemalkin Less than one percent of them actually stay in the profession after a year.

— Cynthia Beattie (@swissmissled) June 10, 2015

Of course Teach for America supports the personal activism of its alumni, assuming that it does indeed “help kids.”

.@NYPostOpinion @michellemalkin Our alumni's work & personal activism are helping kids. We support their leadership: http://t.co/ZmDdijRAGX

— Teach For America (@TeachForAmerica) June 10, 2015

.@TeachForAmerica @NYPostOpinion It's not just alumni. You support this TFA official attempting to incite riot?==> pic.twitter.com/o6mXViskH8

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 10, 2015

My response to @michellemalkin’s @nypost article: YOU CRAZY. Be militant, @deray, @MsPackyetti & others. Change’ll come. #BlackLivesMatter

— W. Aaron French (@AaronMoFoFrench) June 10, 2015

Take DeRay Mckesson, who was credited by the New York Times Magazine as one of the founders behind “the most formidable American protest movement of the 21st century to date.” When the protests in Ferguson exploded, he was reportedly working in the public school system in Minneapolis; now he travels the country from protest to protest with fellow agitators, as he suggests in this tweet from McKinney, Texas.

I've seen so many people here in McKinney who I've seen march in Ferguson. And Baltimore. And Milwaukee. And DC.

— deray (@deray) June 9, 2015

One of those familiar faces is Brittany Packnett, the executive director of St. Louis’ Teach For America chapter. She praises TFA for consistently having her back “in her quest for “disruptive change and systemic change.'” How’s the teaching going? Grading can take up a lot of time that could be better spent promoting disruptive change.