What makes Proposition 74 so sinister is that it retroactively removes any teacher who received tenure status back to 2003-2004 and requires them to reinitiate the probationary process for the next five years. This means that every certified teacher who received tenure status (after the two probationary period)become a "new teacher" and returns to the probationary period for an additional five years. That means many teachers will have to complete a total of seven years on probation to receive tenure. Where is the equity and integrity in that? The short answer is that there is no equity and integrity in this proposition.
Probationary employees are by nature at-will employees. Tenure simply requires that a poor performing teacher be given a opportunity to improve, and if the improvement has not been made in a reasonable time frame, then a due process hearing is required before termination.
Anyone who agrees with this proposition is a willing accomplice to the destruction of the teaching profession in this State.
Election day is the 8th. Go vote.
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It seems that in most professions, the idea of tenure should be expunged. Really, what does the purpose of tenure serve? If those who live under the blanket of tenure were to one day give that up, it shouldn't necessarily matter, should they be worth of the task. With respect to teachers; yes there are good and there are bad; tenure only allows the bads ones to chance through... the good ones never had to worry about it in the first place.
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