Teachers Who Earn Tenure (Waiting for Superman)

It’s not fair how teachers with tenure can’t be fired from their job. Tenure is defined as a policy for teachers that restrict the ability to be fired from their teaching privileges. Instead they are protected from getting their job taken from them. There is no process where the unmotivated teacher is taught a lesson in some way to correct their ways of teaching. It is unbelievable and hard to accept that many bad teachers still have the privilege to teach and supervise many students in the school system. It’s difficult as is to try to fire a teacher who is considered very bad at teaching and has tenure. I am only referring to the teachers who are bad at their job of teaching and earned a tenure for the sake of security in keeping their job.  

            I consider bad teachers as those who don’t care about teaching a class, who is just present in the classroom to earn money, which thinks “If the students don’t care, then why should I”. A bad teacher is lazy, unproductive, unmotivated, no where near self disciplined, sees no hope in the future of their students and does not put in the effort to teach students. They don’t enjoy their job, period. Teachers who don't find teaching a privilege or some kind of positive motivation in teaching other students should not continue to teach and find some other job to do. Students depend on teachers to help guide them for their own future. If a teacher just lazes around and ends up leaving the classroom then don't teach and find some other productive task to do some place else.

            The problem is the teaching job is difficult. Not many people want to teach for a living. Teaching in elementary is difficult enough. A classroom filled with young students who have yet to learn the realities of the real world. I deeply admire those who teach in elementary schools, it’s a very difficult job. Compared to teaching in middle and high schools, where students have a mindset of what the real world is like and what kind of future they want. In elementary schools, young students have yet to fully understand the world they live in.

            Although, I understand it’s hard to differentiate between a “good” and “bad” teacher. Teachers who provide their own school supplies and volunteer to give their personal time to their students outside of school is looked down upon by the education system. Teachers must go by the book, follow the syllabus and the policy which students must learn from. What the school gives is what everyone must use. Yet, they are many schools that don’t even have enough materials, resources and other supplies to be used to teach the students.

            I would like to further learn of what tenure is, how it works, and how it affects students and other teachers.  What will happen if tenure didn’t exist, will that effect the generous teachers who use their personal time and materials for their teaching methods? Why did tenure happen in the first place? Did the board of education, at the time tenure would take affect, ever consider the bad teachers who don't even teach their students properly?