Thoughts on Teacher Tenure

For K-12:

I changed my major to education last year to become a teacher, so I’m currently on the path to being a teacher!

Personally... although I may be disagreed with, I don’t think the teacher tenure should exist. I know it’s a safe and government job with good benefits, but the idea of it is a disincentive. Growing up I noticed that a good proportion of my teachers were not comparable to others. They didn’t really care as much, and I think the tenure has got to them. When your job is secured like that where you basically know you won’t get fired for doing a poor job, who’s going to put in extra effort? I think that it shouldn’t be safe and once teachers show lackluster involvement and assistance to the students, they SHOULD be taken under evaluation and at risk to lose their jobs. Personally, education is the single most important thing to instill on future generations, and it’s frustrating seeing teachers do the minimum being fully aware they’re safe. With all that in mind, this could turn into an up and down thing. I understand that the conditions of being a teacher isn't exactly the preferable one, and that could be made up here. If the teacher tenure is gone, I think it could be made up for with higher pay or more benefits; additionally, it would stimulate more teachers to do more work and actually care about their career as a teacher.

Ever since I started pursuing teaching, I found the teacher tenure seem to be more and more of a hindrance to education -- not because of the idea of it, but the ways that some teachers can view it. I think the removal of it would help the education system in America and if the teachers get compensated for its removal, it would help better teachers with benefits and pay raises while removing the teachers that tend to cruise by the school year without much care.

What do you think?

Submitted October 19, 2018 at 08:49PM by homeohcow https://ift.tt/2QWUsVK