| HERE IS THE TRUTH: The leaders of the BATs sent the following letter to TIME magazine in response to the magazine's insulting cover story about American teachers: Instead of clarity, this continues the misconception that tenure ensures a job for life. It does not. It ensures "just cause" rationale before teachers can be fired....the cover perpetuates the pernicious myth of the "bad" teacher and tenure as the prime enablers of larger failures in American education. This is a false narrative. These failures are due to structural inequalities and chronic underfunding in our educational systems, not due to teachers and teacher tenure, which is a a simple guarantee of procedural due process which is its function in K-12 education.Opponents of teacher tenureconsistently invoke the "bad teacher" argument as pretext to attack not only teachers but also teacher unions, arguing that ... |
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