The Full Form of VTPS is Veterans Teaching Peace in Schools.

The stated goal of Veterans Teaching Peace in Schools (VTPS) is “to promote peace by bringing U.S. military veterans into academic environments to share their experiences and discuss alternatives to war.” An outgrowth of Veterans For Peace, VTPS was established on October 31, 2001 to counter President Bush’s call for veterans to speak in classrooms across the United States following the 9/11 attacks. “Of course,” says VTPS, “Mr. Bush intended the veterans to speak from a pro-war stance, but the veterans of VTPS offer to speak from a pro-peace stance.” The founder of VTPS was Gulf War veteran James Madison. “[A]s soon as I heard about Bush’s call for veterans to go into schools,” Madison explains, “I realized that I could throw together an organization that would be a kind of a counter-movement.”