I really feel like this is nothing more than politicizing the teaching profession. It let's politicians hire and fire at will, and that's never a good thing. The whole point of tenure is to insulate teachers from political spoils. Our schools and our children will suffer.

This encourages the best from teachers, and qualifies that they belong in the top echelons of their profession. It sifts the chaff and ensures we have the best teachers for our children. It ensures the future grades are well above average and worthy of the largest cuts in funding.

To me it conjures up visions of when I was forced to join a union at Oak Ridge and told by the rank and file to slow down...I was working my self out of a job. They knew they couldn't be fired unless the union approved. Therefore the chaff lead the production numbers.

When the job was finally finished, they were laid off. That was the only way management had of improving the workforce. You can't make lazy people work!

Mushy

All this bill does is let politicians have their way with hiring and firing in our schools. That is the reason tenure was created in the first place.

If you ask any teacher about getting rid of any teacher who doesn't do a good job I would be shocked if you can find a single one of them who doesn't want solid coworkers. But tenure doesn't keep bad teachers on the job. Poor administration does. And administrators are handicapped by local political connections in dealing with certain people and now this will only make it worse.