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Teachers are not lettuce pickers, they are (presumably) the society's most educated and most skilled. .......It's embarrassing to have to work with this infantile, sheltered crew on a daily basis.

Exactly, they're sheltered and that gives them protection from being removed.
This is a very healthy environment for one point of view to gain a long term foothold.
Maybe it's time you became an advocate for your point of view while there's still time.

Tenure was intended to protect instructors from political harassment. It is now used to protect bad instructors friendly with the administrators, and it is often used to "discipline" good instructors at odds with socialist administrators through the seldom-known process of "post-tenure review." So, where there is tenure, it should be abolished; where there is no tenure, it should be implemented!

I can certainly see the "value" of tenure, after what's happened to me recently. But -- I stand by what I said: tenure IS a pernicious influence and reduces competition and quality.

Well I'm off to a Sunday help session with my students (They have an exam next week). I give them help sessions just about every weekend, for 3-4 hours. Like it "matters" or will help me.

Realistically, a fairly-run courtroom with an honest judge is the only thing that will help me at this point.

I do have lots of good fodder for a legal case though: E.g., a handwritten letter from a colleague which states that the Union said it wanted to get rid of me because I was personally against Prop. A, a recently passed & very expensive bond measure, to fund Community College contruction projects and improvements. I do feel the taxpayers are burdened enough, by a big wasteful ed bureaucracy, but -- like my husband says, "What do you think you have, free speech, or something??"

I also sported a "YES ON SCHOOL VOUCHERS!" sticker on my car. The word, "vouchers" is like a cuss word, to teachers' Union types. I think that bumpersticker was my second "mistake." It's all about money, monopoly power, corruption -- not about freedom of speech, diversity of opinions, or expression.

I attended George Mason University - where Dr. Walter Williams, Rush Limbaugh's occasional substitute, teaches economics. Isn't he great? He's just super. :)

take care all.