3 • BENNETT BANNER • FEBRARY 27, 1998
• OPINION • OPINION • OPINION • OPINION • OPINION •
Banner Mailbag
etters to the editor
Teach for American founder
sends appeal
to class of 1998
In what media are calling the
best job market in recent history,
this year’s class of graduating
seniors face tremendous opportu
nities. It is in this context that I
write you, whether you are
winding down your job search or
are still looking for the right
opportunity.
It was in a similarly booming
environment in the late 1980s
when I was a college senior, that
I started Teach For America.
Despite the tremendous
opportunities, thousands of us
graduating seniors were search
ing for something we weren't
finding.
I sensed that some of the
most talented and motivated
among us would jump at the
chance to join a movement to
ensure that this nation is truly the
land of opportunity, that hun
dreds of the most outstanding
graduating seniors would
commit two years to teach
students in America's most under
resources urban and rural
schools.
Teach For America has been
everything I envisioned and
more. Over the past eight years,
well over 20,000 individuals
have competed to enter Teach
For America, and more than
4,000 recent college graduates-
from all academic majors and
ethnic backgrounds-have taught
through Teach For America in
conmiunities ranging from South
Central Los Angeles to the
Mississippi Delta to the South
Bronx. These men and women
have brought to their schools a
tremendous sense of possibiUty,
a contagious enthusiasm, and
most of all a passionate commit
ment to their students. They have
started extra-curricular programs,
led school improvement initia
tives, and rewritten school
curricula They have visited their
students' home and communi
cated regularly with their
parents. They have expanded the
horizons of their students by
introducing them to college, and
by taking them on trips every
where from France to Washing
ton, DC. They have had an
incredibly challenging time, but
they have also made a real
difference.
I'm writing now to call upon
you “ both those who grew up in
urban and rural conmiunities and
those who did not, those who
attended public schools and
those who attended private or
parochial schools-to become part
of this movement and to help
build our country's future.
Wendy Kopp
Founder
Teach For Ameiicat
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