Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Tenure?":
Tenure works like this :
A teacher is hired and works for 3 years trying to impress everybody in sight: parents, other teachers, administrators , the union president by going above and beyond the duties of their job teaching. All in an effort to get reccomended to the board for tenure which means that except for getting arrested, they can never be fired. Even if when they stop going above and beyond because they have tenure. Bad teachers can not be fired, just moved around from building to building. Tenure should be eliminated. If you do your job then you would not have to worry about being fired.
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Thank you for the input on tenure, however I am the same parent who asked the question to begin with and agree that is how I see the tenure system, but I really would like to hear if it is a misconception and some real clarification...not just an angry answer.
ReplyDeleteThis is untrue. Tenure is NOT a lifetime guarantee of employment. There is something called a 3020a hearing which is a hearing to dismiss a tenured teacher. There are a list of charges. Tenure ONLY guarantees teachers a right to due process. NYS is an employment at will state. Without tenure, teachers could be let go for any reason or none at all. In addition, did you know that in times of layoffs, TENURED teachers can be laid off, too. Just an fyi.
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