Reply #189: They don't know what "tenure" is, and apparently you don't, either.

[tonysam]

"Tenure" isn't the same in public ed as it is in higher education. All it is is the "right" of a teacher to have a "due process" hearing, which is almost always rigged in a district's favor.

It is laughably easy to get rid of teachers. Most of them aren't technically "fired" but are "asked" to resign in lieu of a dismissal, which in reality is the same thing. Or else they refuse to take a resignation or aren't "asked" to resign but are put on unpaid administrative leave, which is designed to starve a teacher into submission and resign. Most do so. Districts con teachers into resigning for the simple reason a district doesn't have to pay unemployment compensation. Ignorant teachers will take a "resignation" thinking it will help them in future jobs. It won't. Many school districts and licensing boards will ask if a teacher has "resigned" in lieu of a dismissal. It's basically an admission of guilt in the eyes of other districts.