<p>I’m not sure if oregon101 was suggesting this or not, but maturity of the corps members has had nothing to do with what we’ve witnessed with TFA. One of my ds’s fellow corps members left after a couple of months because one of her students kept threatening her life, and neither the school nor TFA would take action to protect her. Another found himself stamping out fires in the trash cans after his students would throw all their test papers into it and set it on fire. All of the TFAers my ds is leaving behind are somewhere between deeply depressed and counting the days until they can finish serving their time and get on with lives. Are they all immature? Or are TFA assignments like a roulette wheel, where corps members hold their breath to find out whether or not they’ll get an assignment that doesn’t devastate them?</p>