California Teacher Tenure Laws Hurt Poor And Minority Students, Judge Rules This is certain to go through endless appeals and it will be quite intereting to see if it reaches SCOTUS. Read more @ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/u...tenure-laws-ruled-unconstitutional.html?&_r=0 and it originally came from http://laborunionreport.com/2014/06...-hurt-poor-and-minority-students-judge-rules/
I'm of two minds about this issue. Tenure for public school teachers? No. But tying pay or job security to performance results? No. Tenure more or less makes a teacher bullet proof, safe from criticism and performance reviews, and so that's bad. On the other hand when whether or not a child will learn and then perform up to state standards depends mostly on what sort of home life he or she has, how can a teacher be held responsible for achieving certain results? Can she or he discipline the child in such a way that desired results will be theoretically possible? No, because doing so might damage the child's 'oh so important!' self-esteem. So forth and so on.
