Dear Teacher Tenure

Dear Tenure for Teachers,

You need to abolish yourself.
Be honorable and do the right thing.
Overdose on morphine or jump off a cliff into a den of wild wolves.
The good teachers do not need you.
You are around to help the ones who need to leave the profession.
You have saturated our profession with unprofessionalism.
In any other business, the ones who are inept, lazy, and chronically late are dismissed.
Fired, sent home, given a pink slip.
You have ruined our profession, made us a laughing stock.
Please take your leave, vamoose, disappear.
Do the right thing. Be honorable for the first time ever.

Signed, a Teacher who Cannot Imagine
Why we Developed Tenure in the First Place

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021



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Date: 12/16/2021 4:51:00 PM
I agree, Caren ... think government employees, or some lifers in the military. Never do anything because they can't lose their jobs. Help it's driving me crazy. Great poem, Caren Thanks for sharing, Bill
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/16/2021 8:49:00 PM
Thank you Bill. It drives me nuts too!
Date: 12/16/2021 6:22:00 AM
Caren, Just an old idiom. “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” -George Bernard Shaw
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Bill Baker
Date: 12/16/2021 4:48:00 PM
I think that trite sayings is very misleading. Jesus, for one, could certainly do it, yet He was also the greatest teacher the world has ever known. Just saying...( Not Caren, Quoth / this is Bill Hope my commenting to Quoth was not crossing a line, especially with you. Bill
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/16/2021 11:56:00 AM
I have hard it but it is not true of all teachers surely
Date: 12/15/2021 10:18:00 PM
well said, Caren. Happy holidays my friend.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/16/2021 6:13:00 AM
Thank you Eve Happy Holidays to you!
Date: 12/15/2021 8:14:00 PM
I wholeheartedly agree, Caren. The good ones really don't need it, and the bad ones are hiding under it...in plain sight!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/16/2021 6:13:00 AM
It is so sad; why do we have it? WHY?
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