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Originally Posted by Bonanza
I've often thought about why teachers get tenure and no other type of job has that kind of "protection."
It seems to me that it is a way of teacher possibly faking a couple of years of being a supposedly, "good teacher," and subsequently showing their true colors and doing a disservice to the children they are teaching when they finally have in the years to be tenured.
If tenure is such a great thing, why don't other specific types of jobs do the same thing?
BTW -- I am not speaking about unions, although teachers are a union.
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I couldn't agree more. Our daughter is a tenured teacher with 8 years on the job. She hates the fact there are so many good teachers that can't get jobs and other teachers (not always the older ones!) sit back and forget why they got into the profession. In PA around 1995 in order to become a teacher, a student had to graduate from college with 3.0. On the surface that is a good idea, but it also produced teachers that were book smart, but had no concept how to give the love of learning to their class.
The main issue is how to evaluate a teacher and get away from the tenure system.