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Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major

“Oh, I’d say we burn through a hundred or so ethnic-studies majors each year,” said Anderson, pointing to a series of charts showing the college-major breakdown of TFA corps members. “They tend to last a little longer than women’s studies majors and art-therapy students, but Cuellen got mashed to a pulp pretty quickly. It usually takes ethnic-studies majors another year to realize that they’re wasting their precious youth on a Sisyphean endeavor.”