[Rio]

constitutional guarantees of an adequate public education

What constitution is that?

[Carry_Okie]

Legal procedure will be the bane of this country.

[Leaning Right]

The plaintiffs allege that the teacher tenure system, which provides strong job protections for teachers who reach tenure, usually after a three-year probationary period, allows too many ineffective or incompetent teachers to stay in the classroom for too long.

I disagree. Teacher tenure only mandates one thing: That a tenured teacher be fired for cause only. A tenured teacher cannot be fired because he looked at his principal funny, or because a school board member wants to give that teacher's job to someone else.

As mentioned in the article, new teachers don't have tenure, and so can be fired for silly and arbitrary reasons. An excellent math teacher I know was fired after her first year, just because a school board member wanted to give her job to a relative. So yeah, tenure matters.

So why do incompetent teachers remain? It's because administrators are too lazy to go through the process of firing a tenured teacher. That's where the problem is.

[1010RD]

This is a big deal.

[joe fonebone]

this is being done incorrectly...

if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em..

here we go...

most tenured teachers are white...

white teachers are automatically racist...

therefore, tenure laws are racist...

THAT may work