Without tenure, you could fire a teacher because you don't like the way she looks, or you want to hire your cousin's boyfriend, or you dislike the teacher's beliefs, or his religion, or skin color, and you could tell them to clean out their desk and leave the building in three hours. Then you could bring in some Walmart workers and minimum wage to take their jobs.
Wow. Doesn't that sound exactly like what our schools need right now?
Once again . . . There are 3 components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.
The first can be directly taught through phonics and decoding strategies.
But, the other two, only come from practice, practice, practice.
It's up to the students to read on their own at home.
A teacher can expose his students to good literature, and even model fluent reading, but it is up to the INDIVIDUAL STUDENT to do the ASSIGNED READING!
Some don't even bother to read the Cliff Notes anymore!
i worked in a school were custodian's had tenure ridiculous what a waste of money secretaries too and alot of the teacher's i had teach me are still there and i graduated twenty yrs ago i think tenure sucks cause you have these fossil's milking the system and taking up space in our school's
pfffft..."objective" evalutations don't exist. This whole effective, ineffective, teacher spiel is getting old quickly. Opinions vary on what makes a teacher "good" or "bad." Of course the popular belief is that Its always the teacher's fault, so why stray? Its a lot more popular than demonizing the culture in which a child is raised!
@ticks4ticks4 An obvious lie at the beginning of this video is that teachers that have achieved tenure are not evaluated. They are and if there are deficiencies, they are put on a plan of improvement. The only real difference between tenured and non-tenured faculty is that tenured faculty have an extra option which is a hearing before a district judge. This gives them a little protection from local
politics. Without that protection, board members and parents could just run
sub par teachers shouldnt be given tenure. blame the administration for giving out tenure. also how would you rate the freedom teachers have in the classroom to teach the way they want to teach? year after year teachers have less latitude to experiment and develop different teaching techniques. something greatly needed by fresh out of college teachers to get a feel for the proffesion. teachers need freedom to become better teachers. as far as tenure reform goes, just make it harder to attain.
@ya19375 I agree with you that tenure should be abolished--but don't blame the "administration" for "giving out tenure"---the administration has to "give tenure", because "tenure" is part of the system--no thanks to the teachers' unions.
Without tenure, you could fire a teacher because you don't like the way she looks, or you want to hire your cousin's boyfriend, or you dislike the teacher's beliefs, or his religion, or skin color, and you could tell them to clean out their desk and leave the building in three hours. Then you could bring in some Walmart workers and minimum wage to take their jobs.
Wow. Doesn't that sound exactly like what our schools need right now?
bnannylv 2 months ago
50% of new teachers quit within 5 years!
MsJanetWood 4 months ago
Once again . . . There are 3 components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.
The first can be directly taught through phonics and decoding strategies.
But, the other two, only come from practice, practice, practice.
It's up to the students to read on their own at home.
A teacher can expose his students to good literature, and even model fluent reading, but it is up to the INDIVIDUAL STUDENT to do the ASSIGNED READING!
Some don't even bother to read the Cliff Notes anymore!
MsJanetWood 4 months ago
i worked in a school were custodian's had tenure ridiculous what a waste of money secretaries too and alot of the teacher's i had teach me are still there and i graduated twenty yrs ago i think tenure sucks cause you have these fossil's milking the system and taking up space in our school's
erectionaffection 7 months ago
Abolish it, If I suck at my job I get the boot and so should Teachers.
Tenure is dead.
College Professors next =]
GhostsInMyAttic 11 months ago
socialism is the ultimate form of evil
lvll138inrs 1 year ago
Teachers are way over paid. Fuck them.
homertalk 1 year ago
@homertalk It`s obvious you didn`t have too many of them in you`re life...lol
GhostsInMyAttic 11 months ago
@GhostsInMyAttic Had plenty, there too stupid mostly to do anything else. Those who can't, Teach!
homertalk 11 months ago
@homertalk and that`s why tenure shound be abolished but, There are some good ones though.
GhostsInMyAttic 11 months ago
pfffft..."objective" evalutations don't exist. This whole effective, ineffective, teacher spiel is getting old quickly. Opinions vary on what makes a teacher "good" or "bad." Of course the popular belief is that Its always the teacher's fault, so why stray? Its a lot more popular than demonizing the culture in which a child is raised!
Nelson5011 1 year ago
Yeah let's make it so unattractive to teachers that nobody will want to do it for the
meager salaries and total lack of respect. You seem to think that a tenured teacher
can't be fired when nothing is farther from the truth.
MrRandyDick 1 year ago
@MrRandyDick True, a tenured teacher CAN be fired; however, not many ARE, because it's not so simple to do.
ticks4ticks4 1 year ago 5
@ticks4ticks4 An obvious lie at the beginning of this video is that teachers that have achieved tenure are not evaluated. They are and if there are deficiencies, they are put on a plan of improvement. The only real difference between tenured and non-tenured faculty is that tenured faculty have an extra option which is a hearing before a district judge. This gives them a little protection from local
politics. Without that protection, board members and parents could just run
over them.
MrRandyDick 1 year ago
@ticks4ticks4 Here's a typical scenario. Teacher X gives student Y the grade that
he earned but his mom doesn't like it. Her cousin Bubba is on the school board
and pretty soon, he's bugging the principal to get rid of this "unfit" teacher. You
can imagine all sorts of scenarios (wrong religion, etc.) If he doesn't have tenure,
he's gone. If he does, he has the right (although he may elect not to use it)
to have a ruling by a judge. Tenure is a good b/c it insures 1st ammendment
rights.
MrRandyDick 1 year ago
sub par teachers shouldnt be given tenure. blame the administration for giving out tenure. also how would you rate the freedom teachers have in the classroom to teach the way they want to teach? year after year teachers have less latitude to experiment and develop different teaching techniques. something greatly needed by fresh out of college teachers to get a feel for the proffesion. teachers need freedom to become better teachers. as far as tenure reform goes, just make it harder to attain.
ya19375 2 years ago 2
@ya19375 I agree with you that tenure should be abolished--but don't blame the "administration" for "giving out tenure"---the administration has to "give tenure", because "tenure" is part of the system--no thanks to the teachers' unions.
ticks4ticks4 1 year ago 6