1. The need to eliminate teacher tenure By Jessica Mittelstaedt

2.  What is Teacher Tenure? Pros:  Get to keep a job. Cons:  Can’t be fired! – Even if they are a terrible teacher!  It costs thousands of dollars to fire tenure teachers.  Teachers get lazy. Status granted to a teacher after a probationary period, indicating that the position or employment is permanent.

3.   Teachers should not be allowed to administer state evaluation tests to their own students.  Conduct in class must be of a professional manner; no sleeping while on the Job!  Teacher evaluations should be done more often and on a surprise basis.  Teachers should be evaluated on the support and help that they give to students, and not simply a score. Changes in the evaluation process

4.   Principals must have support in hiring and firing substandard teachers.  Aggressively challenge teacher unions.  Support the decision to fire lemons.  Stop “the dance of the lemons!”, the transfer of teachers from one school to the next passing the problem. = Take accountability

5.  Teacher unions Detroit School System  Poor minority graduation rates  Restrictions placed by union teachers  Pupil test scores not used in evaluations

6.   American education system is falling behind when compared to other country's.  Low graduation rate for minorities  Inner cities are struggling to reform and raise standards  Teachers are not the only factor that affects education, but they are the most affective and should be the easiest one’s to fix. The need for change

7.  Teacher unions New Orleans School System  Hurricane Katrina washed away what was one of the nation's worst school systems and started fresh with new energetic ideas – without tenure.  Uses teacher performance based on pupil test scores.  Uses charter schools without union teachers.  Requires parent and teacher support for pupils.

8.   Teacher unions resist all forms of change – We shouldn’t need to have a hurricane to fix the tenure problem.  More than one type of evaluation should characterize an educator  What defines a “good or great teacher” from the “Bad worm in the apple teacher” Or Change

9.  It costs thousands to fire a tenure teacher.

10.   We need to eliminate teacher tenure!  Reconstruct our system so that: A. You can fire lemon teachers B. keep great teachers who deserve to stay. C. Children don’t have to struggle by lemons and enjoy learning. Thank You Conclusion

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