Making "Tenure" a Bad Word Helped Steal "Due Process!"
Not only will they believe it, but they will embrace it, passionately.
They will, foolishly, repeat, word for word or improvise with their own words of wisdom, every bit of nonsense they have heard from "them." They will own it.
And there begins the story of how "tenure" became a bad word. Tenure became something evil that "those lazy, 3 months off, every holiday, 4 hours of prep(I actually read this in a comment),horrible, horrible, teachers", are using to keep their jobs!
That's the mantra, right?
Tenure is due process, period. It gives teachers the right not to have their jobs arbitrarily taken from them, period. Anyone see anything wrong with that? Apparently the Vergara Verdict leads me to believe many did.
Obviously, many people agree. The duped public, the "ed-reformers" aka "get rid of unions so that we can take over the schools and make tons of money", the faux celebrity "educators"
( e.g Michelle Rhee), duped journalists, (e.g. Roland Martin), did I mention the duped public?
"Is this the end of the powerful teachers' union?" Direct quote from the reporter on CNN.
Why were unions originally established? To gather together the employees of a workplace in order to provide power in numbers. What happens when you take away the union? StudentsFirst, StudentsMatter, Pearson, etc..., realized that there are billions of dollars in education. And who is standing in their way?
I was listening to my favorite radio station the day of the verdict. They had Dr.Stephen Perry, apparently America's most trusted educator, discussing why theDIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Making "Tenure" a Bad Word Helped Steal "Due Process!":
