What Are The Pros And Cons Of Teacher Insurance Essay

Teacher Insurance One day during the week of July 2015, our Golden Apple class had a debate over the pros and cons of teacher tenure. Tenure for teachers is like insurance on the job. This debate took place in a classroom on St. Xavier University’s campus in one of the building. Several Golden Apple students and I participated in this debate, there had been about 20 or more of us in this classroom and as I cannot remember everything every person in the room said, I can recall some very important points that was brought up during the debate. This happened about 3:30 in the afternoon. Like the rest of the weeks during this month we had learned about Charlottes Danielson’s Framework for Teaching, and as we talked about the many controversial topics within the education system, we debated on a few of them and the teacher insisted this topic become a debate. With my fellow scholars, I did my research and gathered my evidence, we prepared ourselves for the debate. I took an adamant stand for teacher tenure because to me the pros made more sense than the cons, it protects those who needs to be protected and if I was a teacher I would want to have tenure and not fear losing my job for ridiculous reasons. The teacher broke us off into groups on where we stood within the topic and each side gave their reasons. The biggest thing was to …show more content…
So why do you agree that teachers should have tenure, asked the teacher. There was a pause. It protects teachers who voice opinions to faculty and staff about certain things and topics without the fear of getting fired, I said. “Good point, anybody else”, the teacher asked. Well, it protects them from talking about controversial topics inside their classroom, mentioned another girl in the class. Does anybody disagree or want to refute that, states Mrs. Shawna. No one said