In NC, tenure protects her from firing unless there’s a moral issue like theft or sexual impropriety. It’s possible to remove her for incompetence but it takes several years of intense monitoring/documentation, and she has to be shown to have failed to make any effort to change. She’s been teaching over 20 yrs. based on a pic of her and her husband next to their morbidly obese son at his high school graduation in 2010. She graduated from the same stellar historically black institution as Duke Hoaxtresss Crystal Mangum.. NC Central U.