Reply #6: Do you fucking know what "tenure" is? Of course you don't. It's obvious from your post. [View All]

[tonysam]

It is NOT the same as college tenure. All it is is the right of a teacher to have a "due process" hearing before he or she is shitcanned.

Guess what? The hearings are rigged--ALWAYS--in favor of school districts. Why? Because the hearings are held on school property, and the "hearing officers" are typically paid for by the districts (in some states, it is the state which selects and pays for the hearing officers) and the "unions," which are typically in bed with the districts. Although the hearings are supposed to be legal proceedings, all kinds of illegal and criminal activity by school districts is tolerated, including bribery, perjury, subornation of perjury, forgery, witness tampering, you name it. A teacher can be deprived of witnesses, such as yours truly was.

What "tenure" really does is put a brake on a principal's worst impulses to fire teachers for stupid reasons, and to prevent EVEN MORE WRONGFUL TERMINATION LAWSUITS AGAINST SCHOOL DISTRICTS. Tenure protects school districts. It is in school districts' best interests that "tenure" exists.