Teacher Tenure In Schools

A teacher sits in front of their school board. 6 months ago they were evaluated because there were complaints from students that the teacher was bad. The past few months the school has been trying to help the teacher out with daily planning and giving them a mentor. It seems like whatever they do the teacher just does not get better. Now the teacher must own up to their poor review and get fired. But why weren’t they fired earlier? Why have they been in a classroom environment hindering students success? Simply because of a little thing called tenure that should not exist due to all the problems it causes.
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During this time frame, the teacher receives full pay (Adkins). This policy does protect a good teacher but is horrible for the school. For a full 90 school days after telling a teacher they are not meeting standards the school still has to pay a full salary to them. Instead of the school spending money on something better for the school they waste it on a person that they are going to fire. Teacher tenure quite literally makes the school pay for an inadequate teacher. Though this is not the worst of what teacher tenure does, it also keeps a teacher in a classroom where they should not be, in turn harming the students. How does a teacher get tenure? They have a probation period to go through before receiving tenure. According to neatoday.org the average probation period for a teacher is 3-4 consecutive years. Not only is the probation period short, in New York, 97% of teachers who tried to get tenure received it (Kahlenberg). Tenure is supposed to mean something to a teacher but with the statistics from New York, it would seem that almost anyone can receive tenure. How is the system beneficial to the school