Anse:

Schools are eager to hire them because they're good. Sometimes you take a gamble with somebody seeking a permanent position. TFA teachers, at least in Houston, are never a gamble.

I think I'm going to have to disagree with you there. TFA might be all fine and well if it were a suppliment. But arguing that TFA participants should be hired above actual trained and credentialed teachers, who have at lease had the experience of student teaching, is absurd.

And as I keep pointing our if your logic is true Anse, why not Lawyer for America? What is the difference? Unless you think it takes more skill and professionalism to be a lawyer? Or perhaps a lawyer is a more important job than teaching?