The Importance Of Tenure In Public Schools

Teachers tenure is a policy that keeps teachers from getting fired and is job security for teachers from ever getting fired. Is keeping the current policy to some thing new would be a better for teachers. What does it mean when a teacher gets tenure? or should there still be tenure for teachers in the future? Is the current policy that teachers have tenure should be switched to a new policy now or in the future? It does not matter if the teacher has tenure or has a lot of experience if they are ineffective at teaching students neither in public schools or in private schools. Is 3 years enough for teachers to get tenure or should teachers tenure policies be changed so that teachers have to wait a little longer to get tenure so teachers are not just becoming effective teachers until the 3 year waiting period to get tenure. In my opinion I believe that the tenure in teachers should not remain the same as the policy that the teachers have now.

In the article “Would Ending Tenure Help Schools?” the author says that:

Like most so-called education “reforms,” eradicating teacher tenure is a fix …show more content…
If there were a new policy for teachers tenure then ineffective teachers would get fired and new teachers would get hired than having ineffective teachers keep working. The author also says that: “Prior to the introduction of teacher tenure, teachers were often fired for non-work related reasons.” Before teachers tenure teachers can become fired easily but now when ineffective teachers have tenure they can not be fired. If theres a new policy for tenure then ineffective teachers could be