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By Clarawieck

Once more, with feeling.

Tenure is not to protect bad teachers from getting fired. Tenure is to protect GOOD teachers from bad administrators. Tenure does NOT protect a teacher from getting fired no matter what. It DOES
require that an administrator get off his sorry a*s and do his job (like observations, anecdotals of interventions, etc), but many administrators are too #(&*%!_(% lazy to do it.
If you are against tenure, I hope you never work untenured for a principal who decides he doesn't like you, even though you're a great teacher. I hope you never flunk the captain of the football team. I

hope you never try to teach the theory of evolution. I hope a parent who donates money to the school for new soccer uniforms doesn't decide you don't like his kid.

THAT is what tenure is for.