Reform of the teachers union has been in the news quit often over the past year. Teacher tenure has the public frustrated with ineffective teachers and the inability of school districts to dismiss them. “These days, however, many have raised questions about whether tenure actually serves the public good or simply provides job protection for senior teachers regardless of their effectiveness” (Hubsch, 2013, p. 4). Unions represent teachers and protect them from unfair labor practices but the ethic of the profession puts the best interest of the child first. The conflict between these two paradigms occurs when the protection of the teacher interferes with the education of the child. Teachers that are ineffective remain in their teaching positions because of the cost and time incurred when trying to remove them from the classroom; therefore the student receives a substandard education.
My interest in this topic developed from my teaching experience in Indiana, Oklahoma, and California. In Indiana tenure was granted after six years of teaching. I discussed this with an instruc...
Teacher Unions are one source of controversy in Education because of how it seems that Teacher Unions have allowed poor performing teachers to remain. In “The Teacher Wars”, it articulates, “Teacher Union movement was (and remains today) a pragmatic, even sometimes
Ladd argues that attempts to make professional codes of ethics are confused about the nature of ethics (Ladd, pg 130). I will be arguing that Ladd’s thesis is not true and that the supporting arguments for his claim do not hold up. To do so, I will first be stating and explaining Ladd’s arguments for his thesis. Next, I will show why these arguments do not hold up using reasoning and counterexamples. Lastly, I will consider possible responses to my arguments from Ladd and disprove those as well.
In 2005, the American Counseling Association (ACA) published a document titled the ACA Code of Ethics which was designed to aid counselors in the ethical decision making process and, in response, “expand the capacity of people to grow and develop” (p. 3). The ACA Code of Ethics provides regulatory guidelines for all counselors to follow in ethical decision-making and practice. Of a more specific nature, the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) has also published a document stating the ethical practices and procedures for the Christian counseling field. The two documents contain many similarities, but, due to differing goals and principals, also containing may differences. This paper compares these two documents and more specifically focuses on the similarities and differences in the areas of confidentiality, fees, and records.
From the reading “Ethical and Legal Issues in U.S. Education”, there were three points that that surprised me. One point was that it is so surprising to me that there are so many steps that a teacher, on tenure, must go through before they get fired. It makes it so difficult to be fired and such a long process that they will never be fired unless they commit a major crime and I believe that this should change. As a teacher, we need to be at the top of our game at all times, and teachers with tenure seem like they do not always have to in order to keep their job. It is also surprising to me that student teachers do not receive the same rights as normal teachers in some states. Student teachers are practicing to become a teacher one day, and
Ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss.
Kowal, Julie, Joe Ableidinger, and Bryan C. Hassel. "Tenure Reform Options in K–12." By Emily Hassel. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Teacher Tenure Reform. Public Impact. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. .
Teacher tenure is a highly debatable topic- Should it be kept or banned forever in all schools? However, there is clearly only one explanation to this problem: We simply cannot continue with teacher tenure. It has passed it’s expiration date
Many states have created tenure policies to protect competent teachers from malicious accusations, and these policies can vary state to state. In this report there will be an exploration on the tenure and termination policy as it applies to the state of New York, an examination on an allegation against a school teacher based on facts and details provided, a review of the investigative process as it pertains to state law, and an outline on the various steps taken by an administrator in addressing this situation.
This society shouldn’t by stand these flaws. First and foremost, teacher tenure is the ruling that restricts the ability to fire teachers. In an article listing the argument for teacher tenure, it states, “…this job protection makes the removal of poorly performing teachers so difficult and costly that most schools end up retaining their bad teachers”. Teacher Tenure encourages
It was protect them from losing their jobs, which at first is grand for the low paid teachers, but instead of doing good it causes education become impossible to teach. According to New York Times, a well known newspaper, states that “Firing a bad teacher could take anywhere from two to almost 10 years and cost $50,000 to $450,000 or more” (New York Times). This tener law, makes it a time consuming and money spending process that the schools are not worth taking. In the movie, “Waiting For Superman” , by Davis Guggenheim- a well known director who made many other successful non-fiction films-The film claims “That if only the bottom 1/5 of bad teachers in the US were fired and replaced by only average teachers, our national test scores would reach those of Finland, more than a dozen places higher on international exam scores” (Guggenheim). So we just edited the tenure law then we can rid of the ineffective teachers and replace them, so that the students will receive the tutelage need. In recent news on tenure-article by New York Times- a Los Angeles County Judge Rolf M. Treu began to fix tenure law stating, “the practices are unconstitutional, for teachers can receive lifetime tenor. The process of getting rid of teachers is long process and money spending. So it is hard to rid of tenor teachers” ( Treu). Judge says, “Ruling is stayed pending an appeal by unions and
Fischer, L., Schimmel, D., & Stellman, L. (2007). Teachers and the law (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Refering to tenure policies, the Los Angeles Times also had this to say: "They too often allow uncaring or incompetent teachers to stay in their jobs, which has a direct effect on learning and engagement". No matter how young a student is, whether they be kindergarten or high school aged, they can tell when a teacher doesn 't care for the work that they do, and the students morale will decrease along with their grade point average. It 's easier for a teacher to lose their drive to care and engage their students when their paycheck doesn 't depend on it anymore. According to the textbook, the public is undecided on the need for tenure, and when polled on tenure policies "nearly half (47 percent) believe that these have hurt the quality of public education (Bushaw & Lopez, 2011)" (257). It isn 't called public schooling for no reason; it 's the children of the public who are affected by tenure policies, so it seems like the public should be more on board with something that affects their lives and those of their children 's to such a degree. There was even a courtcase in California that attempted to challenge tenure. The plaintiffs in the case (Vergara v. California) were nine students and their families who claimed that "this process protects senior, and potentially ineffective, teachers at the expense of newer, more competent ones" (Kauchak, 258). Just because a teacher is new to a school environment doesn 't mean they 're less competent than those teachers who 've been in the same school for years. In fact, new teachers often come in with fresh ideas to introduce to their students that older, tenured teachers who 've been stuck in their ways for so long would never think to try. It 's unfair to base teacher
When faced with the issue of alleviating poverty or saving nature, many would agree with the following statement: as a society we ought to use available resources and funds to help the poor. In his article “Feeding people versus Saving Nature” Rolston opposes this position and asserts his view that there are times when we ought to choose to save nature instead of feeding the poor. I will argue in favor of Rolston’s argument and against those such as Singer, who strongly opposes the notion that preserving nature and allowing people to unnecessarily die is morally wrong. In reality there are many ways in which we can address the issue of global poverty without resorting to destroying natural ecosystems that we are dependent on.
As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice.
Here are a few comments from actual teachers from different background and different states, they have been directly quoted from the book “I am a Teacher” Marquis, Sachs (1991).