Criticism
As part of the Teach For All network, Teach First is subject to the same criticisms levelled at its partner organisation Teach for America. Criticisms have been raised about the cost effectiveness of Teach First as a route. Forty percent of participants stay in teaching after 5 years compared to much higher percentages coming through PGCE and GTP programmes. Training costs are also seen by some to higher per participant when compared to other training routes. Teach First has been criticised for allowing schools to reduce their costs by employing teaching staff at unqualified teacher pay scales. Teach First has also been accused of being biased to middle-class applicants within the application process.
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“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)