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lyoo,

Your call for us to 'reflect and truly think about the real consequences' of our various actions for the 'public good' is a reminder very much in the spirit of Freire's understanding of praxis.  And yet this does not guarantee, of course, any single 'answer' or way of viewing an intervention like TFA; for example, some TFA teachers do strong work, stay in teaching, etc.  So we're in the tricky and demanding situation of having to do some real scrutinizing -- of ourselves as well as of external situations -- in order to 'intervene' as the intrinsically 'historical beings' that Freire sees us as.  I think this entails living in the dialectic of action and reflection...quite a challenge!