For One Thing, Fernanda,

you are a fucking liar when you state teachers receive "lifetime employment" as a result of "tenure."  They don't:  I am fucking living proof of it, along with thousands upon thousands of other teachers around the country who "received" it and were sacked anyway.  Most of us did not commit firing offenses, with many of us having committed the unpardonable sins of being older and being more expensive.

Principals DO have almost ironclad job security because of the dysfunctional way almost all school districts in the country are run.  The principal is god, no matter how badly he or she screws up, no matter how unethical, no matter how incompetent or even criminal.  And these principals have the absolute power to destroy a teacher's career for no fucking reason, even with "tenure" laws put in.  Those administrative laws are typically flouted by school districts to the detriment of teachers.

"Tenure" in public education is completely and totally different than in higher education, but liars like this "reporter" know that.   All "tenure" is is the "right" of a teacher to have a rigged hearing.  As it is, teachers have fewer employment rights than burger flippers.

When I read a fucking liar posing as a reporter on education issues, I want to scream.

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