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Teacherz-4-Life
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This article is about how some folks are questioning Louisiana's system of public school teacher tenure, and it's applicable everywhere, since practically all public schools have tenure systems: You teach for three years and then you have a job for life, with the system unable to fire you unless there's pretty major cause, like you sprayed your students with automatic weapons fire or something. My dad was a public school teacher and principal and had tenure, but I never understood the reasons for the system. They say it's to protect the teachers against unfair dismissal, but if that's the case, why do no other jobs have that protection? What's so special about teachers that they get additional protection nobody else -- doctors, lawyers, firefighters, nobody -- gets from the government? And why aren't more people asking that question? (The Advocate, Baton Rouge)
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