I am deeply indebted to my teachers at every level of my education. But I do know that tenure protects teachers from being fired for incompetence and there is no where in our society where an organization should not have the right to fire people for incompetence.
And teachers have to realize that they must be held up to performance standards. And they must realize that as human beings, they will all age differently. A certain percentage will be able to be competent teachers until retirement. But a certain percentage will lose their drive, burnout or lose mental capacities and those people should not be in a classroom. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and that is what incompetent teachers are doing.
Tenure accomplishes two things. It protects teachers from tyrannical principals and it protects incompetent teachers from being fired. A union process can accomplish the former while providing protections so that there is due process in the process of determining competency.
But I believe tenure is a contractual issue between school boards and teacher unions, so I am not sure how a court is going to find tenure illegal or unconstitutional.
But that is what a court in California is going to try and determine.
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