[bkcunningham1]

I certainly don't want this post to be redirected to the political post, but tenure can really be political IMHO. Life is all about learning isn't it? Tenure and educators has been a long standing debate on the local and national levels in this country.

Of course, if it bleeds it ledes, such as the tragic case in Alabama which brought this long discussed and debated issue to light once again. The story, which by the way, I watched with hope and prayer that it wasn't one of my girlfriends' sons who was shot when I first saw the news come across television.

The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers are two of the largest organized unions in the nation. Their power and, in my opionion, wrongly directed downfall, have been the instigator of The No Child Left Behind campaign and the students voucher debates in this country.

Quoting you, my question would be, why is the faculty "afraid to deny this person tenure even though he has a good many issues and difficulties that prevent him from being a good teacher and it also appears as if he is not mentally healthy" ?