Tenure, A Significant Reward Of The Teachers

Tenure in school systems has been a highly controversial topic lately. Tenure refers to the job security of teachers after they have worked at a certain school for three years. When teachers earn tenure, it is very difficult to take away their jobs. This is especially true in higher education. According to the Washington Post, 32 states grant tenure after three years, nine states grant tenure after four or five years and four states never grant tenure at all. Granting tenure to all teachers gives everybody a job for life which should not be the case. Under-performing teachers should not have definite job security. America should remove academic tenure, replace it with a different system, and re-evaluate school teachers and professors.

Removing a teacher from his or her position is very difficult to do. “Tenure benefits the state by helping to create a permanent and qualified teaching force” (Underwood, Webb 36). This makes it difficult to let a teacher go even when it is to make the school a better environment for the students. Although teachers do have the right to freedom of speech and are able to exercise their First Amendment right, that freedom is in a way limited by the school board. Pickering v. Board of Education (1968) is a great example of this. A high school science teacher was terminated by the board of education because a letter he wrote was published in one of the community’s newspapers. The letter discussed the unequal funding between academics and athletics. After

Moreover, teacher tenure will be "reformed" so that principals and superintendents will have additional decision-making "discretion"; in other words, power will be taken from unions and given to bureaucrats within the state educational system, and tenure for teachers will be based on a new strategy that is, teachers will have earn "highly effective ratings" five out of six years to achieve tenure (Brennan, p. 2).

Finally and foremost, school districts need to get rid of tenure. It is absolutely insane to allow a teacher to have absolute job security no matter how badly they perform. If a teacher can teach they will always have a job. Tenure does not protect high performing teachers as it was intended to do instead it protects low performing teachers. This is vital in getting rid of horrible teachers like Mrs. Eicher who is immune to job loss as a result of how long they have worked at the school.

In Waiting for Superman, a documentary by Davis Guggenheim, Guggenheim explains how teacher unions are making it impossible to change public education for the benefit of American students. Guggenheim begins the documentary by explaining what tenure is. Tenure was created by universities to protect professors from losing their jobs for political reasons, but only after many years of teaching were they granted tenure. Public school teachers believed they should be granted tenure, so they formed unions and went on strike. Eventually they were granted tenure, and it's now part of every teachers contract, making it almost impossible to evoke change in the school systems.

A non-tenure employee is a temporary worker. They can be fired, and rid of very quickly. On the other hand, there is the tenure employee who is a permanent worker with job security. Over the years the number of non-tenure employees at the university almost doubled and the number of tenure employees is slowly decreasing. The reason for this is because it is way cheaper to have non tenure employees than tenure ones. Also,

Richard Kahlenberg, the author of the article Tenure said that tenure was to protect students’ education and those who provide it. He goes on to say that before we can start digging into tenure we should first define what it is. Tenure, for American teachers is awarded after three years, and when it is awarded they have the right to know why a discharge is being sought out by the employer. They also have the right to have the issue decided by an impartial person. Kahlenberg listed why tenure is still necessary, some of them being; it strengthens legal protections, protects a range of people who may be discriminated against that the race and gender antidiscrimination laws do not, and tenure gives teachers the confidence to stand up to outsiders

Tenure is something that teachers get that protects them from the possibility of them losing their jobs. I feel like this is a bad thing and that teachers shouldn’t be able to get. I didn’t know this but now it makes sense how there are alot of teachers that don’t do nothing in class and just hand out worksheets to students. I have always believe that without teachers we wouldn't be successful in life but tenure is something that needs to change its not fair for the schools and students. In conclusion, Have you ever ask yourself why a bad teacher still teaching or why they haven’t fired that teacher it's because a policy restriction called

What is tenure? Academic tenure refers to a policy which gives professors and teachers a permanent contract, effectively ensuring them a guarantee of employment … for life (Garrett 2013). Tenure prevents schools from dismissing teachers without cause or due process in the K-12 school systems. Teacher tenure is the increasingly controversial form of job protection that public school teachers in all states receive after 1-7 years on the job (ProCon n/a). How tenure is attained, protections it provides, and impacts it may have on institutional structures are key factors when researching tenure. The ultimate question is should tenure be required for teachers in the K-12 school systems?

A federal law put in place to abolish tenure will revolutionize the public school system. It is a simple yet realistic advancement to push forth positive effects on many measures, from America's status as a country down to one school’s status. Not only will it affect education, but this legislation could potentially strike up other forms of employment that use permanent contracts. For instance the “U.S. Government Accountability Office [presented a] startling statistic: 40.4% of the U.S. workforce is now made up of contingent workers.” In other words, almost half of the nation's employed have not been guaranteed a permanent job and this has been a rising trend since the recession. It is obvious there are negative effects to this large percentage

Firstly, we should eliminate Teacher Tenure because it jeopardizes our students' education. We cannot let unqualified teachers teach our hard working students. Good teachers get the lessons or syllabuses conveyed to the students and teach in a correct manner. However, bad teachers tend to be ineffective and do not teach the students much. Students do not need teachers that teach in an ineffectual way. Al Shanker, the former president of the American Federation of Teachers, stated, “A lot of people who have been hired as teachers are basically not competent...” You see even the former head of the teachers says that many teachers are hired and protected by tenure, even if they are bad teachers!

There is a consensus among the concerned stakeholders that the quality of teachers is the leading factor in determination of student performance. In the case of United States, the student performance can only be given an impetus by the efforts which the state can make, under all costs, to develop and retain high quality teachers. The measures undertaken determine the level of turnover of the school teachers. Lazear (2009) similarly argues the length of employment is a critical factor in averse risks of employment a trend contrary to teachers treatment. The turnover of public school teachers will refer to the rate at which the state, which is the teacher’s

I respect your opinions on teacher tenure and merit pay. However, teacher tenure is not always a good thing. Yes, job security is important but sometimes teachers will not put in the effort needed to be successful teachers because they know they will not lose their jobs. It is almost impossible to fire teachers with tenure and sometimes those teachers should be fired. As teachers we should always strive to be the best for our students but it is human nature to cut corners or slack off if we feel we can get away with it. Tenure makes it possible for teachers to feel secure enough to slack off or cut corners.

While the teachers and students are certainly impacted by teacher tenure, they are not the only ones affected by this issue. Staff members of many schools have been forced to continue working with teachers who are rude, lazy or simply not well suited for the job. In other careers an employee might be fired for these infractions but sometimes schools are unable to fire these teachers due to teacher tenure laws. This is not only detrimental to the education of the students of such a teacher, it may mean that other teachers must work harder to fulfill the needs of those teachers and must work with a very difficult person on a daily basis. In addition, teacher tenure can harm schools financially as schools are forced to pay high salaries to teachers who do not even deserve the job. This also impacts new teachers who may have difficulty finding a job due to older teachers who may not be as skilled at their jobs being protected by teacher tenure. Teacher tenure can impact the entire community when parents become frustrated that their child must endure a bad teacher and schools are

First of all most should know that teacher tenure has a system of due process, checks, and balances so that teachers can be fired--just not to easily. Before argueing that teacher tenure should be abolished, one should listen to a few points.