Why Do Teachers Pursue The Tim Tenure In Public Schools?

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.

The new changes No Child Left Behind laws were passed earlier in 2010 stresses the importance of education has to be our main concern to ensure that our children are getting quality education. The legislation is called “Performance Counts,” It reevaluates tenure laws and evaluation. This means that teachers are evaluated and being laid off because of their performance in the classrooms. No matter how long the teacher has been in his/her position that still wouldn’t keep them in their position because of their low performance. Over the next 10 years the focus will be to prepare hundreds of new teachers in STEM science, technology, engineering, and math (Mclatchy, 2010). The program is to encourage students in the STEM field or alternative teacher certification programs to switch their careers if they choose to. For

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

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.

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 should not be completely eliminated from school systems becasue it does in fact protect teachers that are teaching students well and improving test scores. As of now there is not an incentive of being a good teacher. In order to protect teachers and produce well educated students tenure laws need to change. Tenure should not be for life, tenure contracts should meet certain requirements in which a teacher is evaluated by how well students do on tests, how well the teachers lesson plans are and how well a teacher can relate to students in a way that they can learn. In order to protect teachers that are effective tenure contracts should still be put in place, but length of contract should be considered different. Instead of a teacher being gauranteed for life after completing the probationary period a teacher should have to pass a teaching exam each year in order to keep tenure. In order to decide if a teacher is succesfully doing his/her job and pre-course exam shall be given at the start of the year on the materials that should be covered throughout the year; a post-course exam should then be given at the end of the course to determine how much students have learned. Test scores are only one of the things a teacher should be evaluated on, other criteria that teachers should be evaluated on are how well the teachers lessons are planned out and how well the teachers interacts with his/her students. After

In a regular company, the store must produce what the consumers’ want if they want to generate a profit and continue to stay in business; the consumers normally hold all of the power. Schools, however, are not getting their money or power from their consumers so they have no need to please the consumers and better their product. That type of system takes away the power from the consumer, which is vital for improvement, because without it the producers have no incentive to change their ways. We can recognize this is true due to the fact that there has been little change in the way we have taught school in the last 100 years. The workers are not at fault, the institution is. The institution has made it difficult for teachers to perform well because the institution has no need to be innovative so they don’t encourage or reward teachers for coming up with better and more efficient ways to teach. Public schools feel no need to improve because they will receive enough funding to keep the school running no matter their performance. Giving schools more money based on the school’s grades has given some incentives to the schools, but seeing as that this money is not taken as a profit, the incentive is not truly there

I agree and disagree with the author in these articles. I thought the changing the teacher evaluation process can be a bad thing and a good thing. I think that teachers should be graded hard on their evaluations, but not too hard that it impossible for teacher to earn tenure. Teachers goals shouldn’t be to earn tenure, but if they teaching their students well. And making an impact in the students’ lives. Tenure is a good idea because everyone should feel safe in their jobs, and feel like they’re won’t get fired. I understand why the state want to make the evaluations harder for teacher, because they want the best teachers in the schools. If there are teachers that getting bad grades on their evaluations then they might not be the best teachers to be teaching children. I think teachers shouldn’t be evaluation be based on 50 percent on students’ standardized-test scores because students could be really bad at tests and then do badly on the test. Teachers could be scored badly on different reasons to like students in low- income families, and students who have disabilities. "Legislators are trying to justify their voting for this bill on the grounds that it increased funding, but that's in many respects to distract from the fact that they voted for things they didn't understand that might end up being damaging to teachers' careers.” I thought that was interesting because it will be damaging that the people who agreeing with these bills don’t understanding what they’re voting for things. This knowledge could be useful to me when I become a teacher because I will be evaluation as a teacher. It is good to know new laws that are being passed with teachers’ evaluations and tenure. It good to know how you are being evaluation, and how you can earn tenure.

According to data gathered by the National Center for Education Statistics in 2015, there are about 50.1 million public school students and 3.1 million teachers in the United States. When the number of teacher is not enough for teaching requirement. We have to improve our teachers’ quality as well as academic freedom. Before tenure, teachers could be fired by personal, religious, race, political reasons, or the teachers’ public speak-outs. In the early 19th century, the National Education Association introduced tenure. Tenure is just a contractual right to protect teachers from unfair expulsion for arbitrary or wrongful reasons (Robertson, 465). Furthermore, tenure is granted to the excellent teachers after a reasonable working period. By the way, we shouldn’t eliminate tenure system because it protects teachers from unfair dismissal, helps school administrators’ works more effectively, and attracts people to the teaching profession.

If teachers are worried about poor observations from their principal while trying new lessons, the classroom will become boring as children learn the same lessons year after year. With tenure, teachers can make learning fun while trying out new curriculums to engage today’s youths.

The tenure system does have a number of flaws, unfortunately it helps some underperforming teachers retain their position and it makes dismissing a teacher more difficult, but the tenure system helps more qualified teachers than under qualified. If the tenure system was not in place you would have disproportionate numbers of qualified veteran teachers being terminated compared to incompetent instructors. Teachers would have lower compensation and higher turnover rates and there would be less qualified instructors, and the students would suffer as a result. The tenure system benefits not only benefits a qualified veteran teach, it benefits the students and parents with a qualified instructor who can provide a good solid education.

Decades ago teachers were denied reasonable freedoms and equality, discontent builded up, until a movement sprouted to protect teachers from getting fired due to frivolous rules. From this wave of labor activism came today 's promise of tenure for teachers a protection that many reformers now feel has

According to data gathered by the National Center for Education Statistics in 2015, there are about 50.1 million public school students and 3.1 million teachers in the United States. When the number of teachers is not enough to meet the demand for teaching, the student/teacher ratio will rise. In order to recruit teachers more effectively, we need to improve the training programs and the teachers ' rights. In the early 19th century, the National Education Association introduced tenure. Before tenure, teachers could be fired for religion, race, political standing, personal reasons, and for voicing their opinions. Tenure is simply a contractual right to protect teachers from unfair expulsion for arbitrary or unjustified reasons (Robertson 465). Furthermore, tenure is only granted to teachers after a reasonable working period. We shouldn’t eliminate the tenure system because it protects teachers from unfair dismissal, helps school administrators work more effectively, and attracts people to the teaching profession.

While there are several reasons educators say they need tenure, the most common one is job protection. This could possibly stem from the time before tenure when educators were fired for any reason. Many like to point out that the time before was possibly one of the worst times to be a teacher because of all the petty reasons one could have been fired. For example, if one was from a different political party than the principal then said educator could be fired. Many female educators like to point out how prior to 1886 they could have been fired for wearing pants and how previous to coherent tenure laws, pregnant women were required to take two unpaid years off of work. Unfortunately many of the reasons cited for the terminating of teachers is being “ineffective.” While the meaning of the word-- not producing an significant or desired effect-- seems black and white there are many shades of gray in between when discussing tenure.

Some argue that tenure allows bad teachers to stay in the classroom. Teachers that are just there to put in their time and don't really care about the students themselves. They feel that granting teachers tenure encourages them to become complacent about their jobs. “Tenures are something that can be beneficial to students, as well. By providing job security, teachers can concentrate on teaching, instead of worrying about overly obsessed parents coming after them. Take for instance, a parent getting a coach fired because they did not give their son or daughter enough play time on the court. There is the classic scenario of parents that will look for a teacher's flaws in teaching before they look for flaws in their child as a student.”(Sharifi)