Teachers Tenure Research Paper

Teachers hold society’s future in their hands. They teach the next generation, and are the most valuable tool we have as a society instill knowledge into our students. Teacher tenure was implemented to protect our teachers from being laid off due to unfair reasons. Michelle Rhee argues that teachers abuse the fact that they have tenure, and fail to teach their students. On the contrary, however, if teachers do not have to worry about their job security, then they can put more, honest focus into teaching the next generation of the world.
In the thirteen years that I have attended school, I would say maybe 2-3 teachers were, as the passage describes them, “grossly ineffective.” I had several teachers who were good teachers, but I just didn’t …show more content…
Sometimes I needed extra help, for longer amounts of time than a teacher could volunteer after school for. Fortunately, I went to school in the “good” school districts that encompassed wealthy parts of town, full of parents who could pay for extra help if students needed it, parents who could afford to donate to the school, and educated parents with the time to help with homework. Generally, students in those kind of school districts do better on the high stakes assessments that supposedly judge the quality of teachers. Without tenure, teachers in wealthier districts have an unfair advantage when it comes to job security; they can absolutely neglect their job and their students will still pass these tests as the parents can afford to pick up the slack. This is the difference between a teacher in for example, Compton, compared to a teacher in Hillsborough. Teaching students who are set up to succeed in this system is inherently easier than teaching students who are set up to fail. Judging both of these students and the quality of their teachers based on a test that