Even if you define a slacker as someone with counter-cultural values, most of her examples were very poorly chosen. Teach for America is a horrible example. Th

Even if you define a slacker as someone with counter-cultural values, most of her examples were very poorly chosen. Teach for America is a horrible example. The organization is good, and I'm not questioning the dedication of the teachers for giving up two years of their life for TFA. But the volunteers are not giving up a chance at a lucrative career in the private sector. In fact, TFA may be viewed as a strong positive to many companies. Top business, medical, and law schools will give volunteers two year deferrals. HBS has TFA as 2+2 partner(2+2 is a program where Harvard will give admitted college seniors 2 years experience, then a MBA in 2 years. Stanford will give out two-year deferrals for law,medical, and business schools. Caltech will give out deferrals for some programs. UCBerkeley will give out deferrals for engineering. Also, many school have scholarships set up for alumni. Those schools are basically endorsing TFA One of Wendy Kopp's goals is to move TFA alumni into leadership positions. Amgen and bulge bracket investment banks are working with TFA to recruit students. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs have both found themselves competing with TFA for college graduates, so they decided they needed to partner with TFA. Google treats TFA like a core recruiting school, whatever that means. So while volunteers are making big sacrifices to work for TFA, it might help them get other benefits like a high paying job, or entrance into a great grad school. List of partnerships. Schools:http://www.teachforamerica.org/alumni/grad_school_partnerships.htm http://www.teachforamerica.org/alumni/grad_school_partnershi... Employers: http://www.teachforamerica.org/alumni/employer_partnerships.htm http://www.teachforamerica.org/alumni/employer_partnerships....