The Way on Teacher Tenure

  Who’s rights triumph who’s? The teacher or the student? Well, according to Rolf M. True, a county trial court judge in California, the students’ right to a good teacher overrules the job protection of teachers.

           The education of students is becoming increasingly important, and that stems from the teacher. A bad teacher can ultimately influence a student away from a certain subject, while an effective educator impassions the student with the subject matter. A bad teacher who is protected by tenure takes away the right for the student to have equal education.

          Students specifically from low income neighborhoods get stuck with ineffective teachers, thus lessening their education. A teacher should not be protected under this tenure if they are useless in the classroom.

           Public education has been facing this problem because the system has stopping putting the needs of students above else. Instead, the security for teachers has taken over until this judge decided otherwise. Poor education can truly lead to a less successful life, and teachers are a huge factor in promoting lifelong success. 


      I have been lucky in my high school that my teachers are very well qualified, however in surrounding neighborhoods, students are not so lucky. The public school system needs to spend more time focusing on the growing future for America by putting the rights of students to have equal education above the rights of a highly ineffective teacher.


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