They call us about once every few months and we yank them around. We thought they knew we were just yanking their chain, but someone at OK News didn't get it.
Every year, Teach for America receives requests to expand to at least 15 new places, but only two to three are opened every year, said Ify Offor, vice president of new site development... "We've received requests for interest from Tulsa and also Oklahoma City, and right now are just in the very preliminary, exploratory stages of whether it would make sense for Teach for America to come to Oklahoma.”
Get it, Ify Offor, wasn't sure if we would give Oklahoma an offer to be a region? Seriously? Hey Oklahoma, is your refrigerator running? Seymour Butz wants to know. Perhaps Ivana Tinckle can help you and Nebraska get regions, real, real soon.
My personal favorite quote from the story:
"Oklahoma has come up on our radar,” Offor said.
Yeah, as in like on every Friday when I make cosmos and mojitos for me and all the McKinsey monkeys I keep around. We all get sloshed and play that game where we have to name all the states from memory. Oklahoma is always the one we forget and have to look up online.
Look OKies, we've had our fun, but lets get serious for a second. You will never, ever, ever, EVER, get a Teach For America site. Get real, you are Oklahoma. There's no MOMA in Oklahoma. You think we get 4000 highly prized recent graduates to fail miserably for two years because they want to drive 40 minutes to the nearest cock fight on a Friday night because it is the only thing to do within a 365 mile radius? Look teaching disrespectful, disenfranchised youth is one thing - we can market that. But if we opened up a region in the O-K we'd have to market teaching kids that have whiskey on their breath before noon, and I am not sure any sign in AGaramond can make that seem cool.
