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Tenure: Good or Bad?

Many people feel that "tenure is vital to the protection of academic freedom and that without tenure we will return to the days when faculty were dismissed for teaching unpopular opinions- ("Tenure-). Thirdly, it allows for reinstatement of teachers. This says that if a teacher has to leave for a particular reason he or she would be allowed to return to a job upon his or her return. And fourthly, tenure prevents the administration from having all the power. They would not be able to fire a teacher only on one particular incident. The teachers who obtain tenure are in the clear. .
             But once a teacher has tenure what happens? A number of outcomes are possible as a result of tenure. In most circumstances the teachers continue to teacher according to the professional standards that lead to their awarding of tenure. However, in some cases harmful results occur due to tenure. Tenure does not only allow the good and proper teacher to remain, it also allows for the bad and unmotivated teacher to remain in the school system. These poor teachers are transferred from one school to another with great recommendation because each school wants to rid their own school of the bad teachers. Another problem with tenure is the fact it causes competition between the professors rather than unity. University professors know that only a few teachers are tenured; therefore, these teachers feel they have to compete with one another to become tenured (Martinez). Another concern for tenure is that once teachers obtain tenure, some forget the reason he or she became tenured. The purpose of tenure is to protect the teachers, give rights to the teachers " not the stand in teacher assistants. In some cases teachers no longer teach their classes; they preoccupy themselves with research and forget about the students that allowed them to obtain tenure in the first place. "The system of tenure could possible distract faculty from their students, because they spend more time on time-consuming research than in the classroom- (Martinez).


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