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Originally posted by Spanky
I like Ty, am really wary of giving school administrators too much discretion over firing. That is why I like the tests. Since the administrators are not incentivised to make the system better I am afraid they will start firing teachers for all the wrong reasons. If you have the tests, then a teacher can use the tests to defend themselves if some idiot administrator is trying to get rid of them because they were not PC in class, or wasn't polite to them the last time they met.
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I wholeheartedly agree with your skepticism. Which is why I am not keen on reducing teachers job protections. And, of course, you describe exactly why tenure exists.