5 Year Contracts for Plainview Teachers?

a more recent JFK grad has left a new comment on your post "Put the Blame Where it Should Be":

I attended POBJFK within the past ten years and had my personal share of good teachers, and awful ones. I battled for years with some teachers, and spent hours talking and learning from others. What good I came away with from JFK, was truly great. I learned Leaves of Grass from M. Rosenfeld himself.

However, I experienced many days in a classroom with educators who were far too young, or perhaps immature, or under-qualified to manage a classroom. I sat in the exact exams that my aunt had taken 30 years earlier when she went to JFK. I had teachers who forced projects upon us with short notice and little relevance to coursework.

The performance of a teacher should be the concern of the entire faculty, administrators AND teachers. I want the best education whatever institution I attend has to offer, but sometimes the best is not good enough. Step it up, or back down. Understand that it's not necessarily a personal attack, but the desire for reassurance of the best possible education.

At the end of the day, the top priority should always be the students. Tenure places the well being of a teacher above that of a student, and in a very permanent position that can be detrimental to a students education. Perhaps instead of a lifetime job offer, we should give them 5 year contracts like they do on the NY Yankees...