Teachers Right to Tenure - Assignment Example

I do not agree with the ruling because in the long run the students trying to be protected will be hurt by the non-existence of the tenure system. If teachers lack protection and hence start being fired regularly, the students’ learning process will be disrupted. They will take time adapting and warming up to a new teacher. They will also be insecure to get close to the teachers in case they are fired and this will affect their psychological well-being.

The judge let emotions take the center stage in the ruling and not fully acted on the evidence presented. I do not refute that some of the teachers are ineffective but ruling based on only 1-3% of the teachers is seemingly unfair and unjust to the teachers themselves bearing in mind over 90% of them are effective ones (Blume and Ceasar, 2014). The judge should have been more objective in his ruling.

A child’s right to education is important but so is the child’s right to happiness and peace of mind which will not be the case if the teachers are constantly being fired hence disrupting the education of the students. Innocent teachers will be negatively affected by the end of the tenure and they are the majority ones. The ruling should have ensured a middle ground to accord the good teachers’ appreciation.

A child’s life is not dependent 100% on school life and hence the private life at home and with friends may also contribute to his or her performance. Having the teachers take all the blame for the failure of the students is an ignorance of the other life outside school children have. Whether a teacher can be fired or not is not directly related to a child’s life outside of school. The court failed to consider this side of the argument.

I think that after the courts and educators who supported the court’s ruling finally realize that the teacher’s tenure did not have everything to do with the learning and performance outcome of students; they will finally revisit this case and ruling and realize the numerous mistakes made during the ruling. The tenure might not come back as it will mean accepting mistakes but a law similar to it might be formulated.

According to the Daily Mail, the teacher was fired which was not an easy thing as he had to be paid off an amount of $40,000 to ensure he does not appeal the case (AP Reporter, 2013). The appeal would have meant the case going to trial and the children having to testify which was what was trying to be avoided.

What the teacher did was not only wrong in the eyes of the law but it was wrong morally as well. The children are very innocent but the action might affect their psychological well-being for a lifetime. I would be very angry and hence on the forefront ensuring that the teacher is convicted and stays in jail for a very long time to avoid him doing the same to other students.