“Tenure does not afford any advantages in pay or job assignments, or guarantee permanent employment. Its most important benefit is to grant teachers certain protections against dismissal without justification, including the right to a hearing before an arbitrator. Teachers and their unions embrace tenure as an important defense against indiscriminate or politically tinged hiring and firing.” notes Al Baker, NY Times, Friday, August 17 titled “Many NYC Teachers Denied Tenure in Policy Shift.”
We need to publish the opening long sentence everywhere we have access to. (Maybe even in the sky! Anyone here fly?) The nonsense written on this subject is so infuriating,
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Deborah Meier on Education 