Taking into consideration what we have watched and read over the past couple of weeks, there is one thing that seems to be universal - bad teachers equal bad students. If an educator simply cannot teach or is unwilling to teach, how will their students learn anything at all?
From personal experience, I know what it's like to have a terrible teacher. Whether they just didn't want to teach, or their own opinions got in the way of the facts, it was always very difficult to lean in those classes. Even when a teacher is being accused of sexual harassment, he did not get fired. The reason? Tenure.
Teachers are guaranteed their jobs because of one simple thing - tenure. After a teacher has had their job for a couple of years, they are granted tenure, which basically keeps them from getting fired for any reason at all. Sure, it seems really good in theory, but what about in application? Even if a teacher cannot educate their students whatsoever, they will keep their job. Thus, they will keep pumping out kids who just aren't learning anything at all.
So, how do we fix this? One way: get rid of tenure. Out of all the possible jobs in the world, is there any other that have anything like tenure? No, not any that I can think of. Yes, tenure is there to protect the rights of the teachers, but we need to stop thinking about them so much. We need to shift our focus to the students, to their futures. Without tenure, schools will be able to fire teachers that are doing a poor job.
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