The Boston teachers union is telling Teach for America to go jump in a lake -- ya can't make this stuff up! And where is Gov. Patrick!? It would be so easy for him to say he supports TFA coming to Boston -- yet he and his even lamer Sec. of Education, Paul Reville, are silent.

They come from places like Harvard, Yale, and Brown, inspired to share their energy and knowledge with public school children.

But the Boston Teachers Union has a message for those eager Teach for America recruits: Thanks, but no thanks.

With the first batch of 20 corps members scheduled to arrive in the fall, just months after probable teacher layoffs, the union has sent a letter to the popular program objecting to its help.

"We already have hundreds of good, 'surplus' teachers; we don't need [Teach for America] to provide us any additional help," Richard Stutman, the union's president, wrote in a letter sent this week. "By coming here, you will only make matters worse."

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