How about we abolish people posting from a position of ignorance first? Tenure only ensures due process rights, not a bulletproof position. It protects teachers against administrators who don't like their religion (I experienced that personally), who don't like their politics, who don't like them for any number of reasons which have nothing to do with the quality of their teaching.
Having worked in government myself and having seen how hard it is to fire government employees I would respectfully submit that your position, while laudable, has been perverted to the point were due process has become practically ‘guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.’
Teachers unions do nothing but drive up taxes and protect worthless lazy slobs that couldn’t make it in the real world.
Few enter college with the intent of becoming a teacher, they switch to a teaching major as a last resort, just before they flunk out.
Scrape out the SAT/ACT barrel, and what sticks to the bottom become public school teachers.
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