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To: Paraclete
Eliminate teacher tenure?
17 posted on 06/08/2002 7:30:05 AM PDT by Greeklawyer
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To: Greeklawyer
Eliminate teacher tenure?

1. It takes 3-4 years to get enough experience for a new teacher to really know the job and learn to deal with the many situations that come up daily. Perputally new teachers, will create chaos and experience should be valued. (Bad teachers need to be removed but that's common sense and most school districts can remove poor teachers.)

2. Who weeds out the bad home schooling parents? (Yes, there are people who have no business teaching anything to anyone remember this is a 12 year adventure and many people don't have that kind of determination!) I've seen parents who home school and produce kids who learn almost nothing after 12 years. The example I have in mind is a mom who probably works as a teacher 1 day per week and the kids play most of the time. She has too many hobies to spend time teaching her kids.

3. My opinion is that if the home schoolers would use their energy to clean up the local school boards we'd go much farther along the way to get better schools. Here in California where I live the parental input is about ZERO and the administrators have very fertile ground to push their social agenda. Home schoolers who drop out rob the system of the energy to possibily clean up the mess.

26 posted on 06/08/2002 8:29:30 AM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe
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