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Olivia Blanchard
Olivia Blanchard is a writer based in Oxford, U.K. She taught elementary school in Atlanta with Teach For America from 2011 to 2012.
Teach for America Delta Institute, Julia Sweeney, HO/AP …
I Quit Teach for America
Five weeks of training was not enough to prepare me for a room of 20 unruly elementary-schoolers.
Olivia Blanchard
September 23, 2013