When is comes to the topic of granting teachers tenure, most people will readily agree that the protection of teachers’ jobs is an important issue. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is whether or not teacher tenure should continue being used. Whereas some are convinced that granting tenure ensures a teacher won’t be fired for personal or political reasons and prevents the firing of experienced teachers to hire cheaper teachers, others maintain that the removal of bad teachers become a tedious and expensive task and promotes complacency among teachers who have no fear of losing their job.
Prior to the introduction of teacher tenure, teachers were often fired for non-work related reasons. Demand for special protections for teachers …show more content…
According to Carl E. Van Horn and Herbert A. Schaffner, “ Before tenure, teachers could be dismissed when a new political party took power or a principal wanted to make room to hire his friends. Women were dismissed for getting married, becoming pregnant, wearing pants, or being out too late in the evenings” (1). Without teacher tenure, principals and administrators were basically free to fire and hire whoever they wanted. There were not a lot of laws or regulations surrounding job discrimination, so teacher tenure was the first step in implementing job discrimination laws for all occupations, not just …show more content…
But on the other hand, I still insist that laws against job discrimination execute the same goal without instilling uninspired teaching habits and without wasting time and money. Now, not only is tenure still in practice among educators, but there are state and federal laws that protect against job discrimination that include what grounds an administrator or principal can fire an employee for. Scott McLeod states that “[f]or this reason, few other professions offer tenure because employees are adequately protected with existing laws” (25). Tenure used to be highly effective in protecting teachers because it was the only form of any sort of law against job discrimination, but now with existing laws, tenure is not needed. Tenure now only makes it more costly and time consuming to fire teachers and encourages mediocre teaching style among
Prior to the introduction of teacher tenure, teachers were often fired for non-work related reasons. Demand for special protections for teachers …show more content…
According to Carl E. Van Horn and Herbert A. Schaffner, “ Before tenure, teachers could be dismissed when a new political party took power or a principal wanted to make room to hire his friends. Women were dismissed for getting married, becoming pregnant, wearing pants, or being out too late in the evenings” (1). Without teacher tenure, principals and administrators were basically free to fire and hire whoever they wanted. There were not a lot of laws or regulations surrounding job discrimination, so teacher tenure was the first step in implementing job discrimination laws for all occupations, not just …show more content…
But on the other hand, I still insist that laws against job discrimination execute the same goal without instilling uninspired teaching habits and without wasting time and money. Now, not only is tenure still in practice among educators, but there are state and federal laws that protect against job discrimination that include what grounds an administrator or principal can fire an employee for. Scott McLeod states that “[f]or this reason, few other professions offer tenure because employees are adequately protected with existing laws” (25). Tenure used to be highly effective in protecting teachers because it was the only form of any sort of law against job discrimination, but now with existing laws, tenure is not needed. Tenure now only makes it more costly and time consuming to fire teachers and encourages mediocre teaching style among