Quality Versus Quantity

Tenure is a policy put in place to guarantee teachers job security. A novel idea, however, tenure provides a safety net that encourages teachers to become lazy. This program is keeping teachers based on how long they have worked rather than how good the work they are producing is.

Quality: Protect Students

Tenure holds a negative connotation in the field of long-term employment. Be it medical, law enforcement, political, or educational, the idea of job security can equate protection for the wrong figures. However, as The New York Times defines it, tenure is simply the right to due process procedures for dismissals without cause, protecting educators from capricious dismissal from their administration. A te...

Quantity: Protect Teachers

Teaching has progressively become a contentious form of job security. It only takes between one and seven years for public school teachers in most states to receive tenure, and Time estimated that as of 2008, 2.3 million teachers have received this luxury. While school’s claim that tenure is granted based off the quality of performance, performance is often what is sacrificed once tenure starts t...

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