Teacher Tenure “According to 2007–08 data, roughly one in 40 tenured teachers is fired for poor performance. But the more recent data suggests that it’s more like one in 500 tenured teachers” (Barnum). Teacher tenure poorly affects students and plays a part in crippling the education system in the United States. However, some people believe teacher tenure plays a strong role in the education system. Because teacher tenure negatively affects students, it should not be used. The debate on teacher tenure is a current topic due to the many issues revolving around flawed educators. CD 1: According to a school administrator, Derrick Meador, “Teacher tenure, sometimes referred to as career status, provides job security for teachers who have successfully completed a probationary period. The purpose of tenure is to protect outstanding teachers from being fired for non-educational issues including personal beliefs or personality conflicts with administrators, school board members, or any other authority figure.” CD 2: The author, an American educator, Frederick Hess, points out, “These …show more content…
Because the latter option is not in the cards, Ken Futernick notes that “administrators’ power to fire teachers without real due process will only exacerbate the teacher recruitment problem” ([ 9] ). Economist Jesse Rothstein found that “firing bad teachers actually makes it harder to recruit new ones” because new teachers don’t know whether, once on the job, they will turn out to be strong or weak educators ([ 24] ). Tenure significantly strengthens legal protections by shifting to the employer the burden to prove the termination is justified. ...Strong tenure laws allow dedicated, high-quality teachers to know they are unlikely to be