It is time for a real educational revolution, whether it's one advocated by
Paulo Friere or someone else, it ain't(sic) going to be home-grown or even home-schooled. Real change will occur from a communitarian core rather than a Common Core. Learning is the most just cause of all, and due process is its standard bearer.
Furthermore, tenure is a worthless protection for a different Biblical reason, namely that God's servant doing God's work in God's way is invulnerable from all hazards, including death and/or firing, as Jesus and the Psalmist both point out [Ps.33:17-19, John 11:9]. And when that work is done, nothing -- not horses nor armies nor bank accounts and lawyers nor even tenure -- will protect you from God giving you a new assignment and insisting that you take it.
As for those people not operating in the center of God's provident will, I suppose that tenure provides a form of sedative against the worries therefrom, much as alcohol and drugs are God's gift to the wretched poor who have no other benefits nor obligations of their own [Prov.31:4-7].
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In the United States and Canada, tenure is a senior academic's contractual right not to have his or her position terminated without just cause.
Other criticisms include the publish or perish pressures creating trivial junk research, a caste system treating those without tenure poorly, and indolence after having achieved tenure. The tenured faculty can resist necessary reforms by administrators who they generally outlast. The tenured faculty also usually can control appointments which contributes to political correctness and groupthink.....
The root of some of these criticisms is that elsewhere in the world, there are very few tenure systems. The system in the rest of the English speaking world, for example, is based on promotion up union-negotiated payscales, usually with automatic advancement towards the top of a grade, with the luckier faculty members being on 'permanent contracts' with no end-date. To go to the next grade (e.g. from associate professor to professor), an application must be submitted, and the criteria are as exacting as in North America. Simon Batterbury argues this system offers less opportunity for sabotage, and more adherence to social justice goals, even though 'permanent' staff members can be fired at any time.
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