Earlier this week, I heard that the superintendent of Cobb County Schools, Michael Hinojosa, wanted to hire 50 teachers from the Teach for America program. The school board was supposed to vote on the issue at tonight's meeting. I felt shocked, to say the least. When I graduated from Vanderbilt, I seriously considered applying to Teach for America. It is a wonderful program that sends recent college graduates to school systems where no one wants to teach - mainly poor, inner city schools and poor, extremely rural schools. Notice the common factor of "poor". By sending teachers to these areas, Teach for America helps students who might not get an education otherwise. But we have teachers here in Cobb County. In fact, I recently read that we had thousands of applicants last year - thousands of people who are qualified teachers looking for a job. And Cobb County is one of the richest counties in metro Atlanta (I daresay in Georgia, but I don't know the facts