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Teacher Tenure
Jul. 6th, 2014 10:57 pmI hate the current backlash against teacher tenure.
I agree that tenure should only be offered after 3-5 years of successful teaching, but it should be offered. Tenure is a teacher's only recourse against a curriculum that seeks to punish them at every turn. A teacher should be encouraged to use any means necessary to help a student not only learn but learn to love learning. Tenure is usally the only way this can actually happen without the teacher being immediately fired.
Also, be really careful about hand sanitizer wipe cans where you just pull the next one. I got my thumb stuck in one at work and that thing was like a more violent form of Chinese Finger Cuffs...or just like a scene from Saw according to a coworker. My thumb was black and blue and bleeding afterwards, but I'm glad I didn't lose it.
I agree that tenure should only be offered after 3-5 years of successful teaching, but it should be offered. Tenure is a teacher's only recourse against a curriculum that seeks to punish them at every turn. A teacher should be encouraged to use any means necessary to help a student not only learn but learn to love learning. Tenure is usally the only way this can actually happen without the teacher being immediately fired.
Also, be really careful about hand sanitizer wipe cans where you just pull the next one. I got my thumb stuck in one at work and that thing was like a more violent form of Chinese Finger Cuffs...or just like a scene from Saw according to a coworker. My thumb was black and blue and bleeding afterwards, but I'm glad I didn't lose it.
