Thoughts for October 25 (Saturday)

We have been having a lot of talk about black and white and gray areas when it comes to dealing with personnel in schools. I heard a lot of really interesting ideas when talking about how to motivate teachers to keep doing a good job or in some cases to get better. Someone brought up the idea of getting rid of tenure for teachers. I really don't believe that bad teachers should get tenure or keep it throughout their career. However I'm not sure that teachers being year to year would actually help the situation. It is similar to someone how smokes and is told that their health is failing and needs to quit smoking in order to avoid long term health risks or even death. Studies have found that these people rarely quit smoking nor change any of their lifestyle in order to stay healthy or avoid death. I would agree that bad teachers are going to continue to be bad teachers no matter what the terms of their employment are.