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More often than not, it was the tenured ones who couldn't give a rat's ass if you learned or not and they were just there collecting their paycheck and babysitting you.
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Tenure can also embolden good teachers to be stronger advocates for their students. I had pluses and minuses as a teacher but I used my tenure as leverage to push my agendas. I overestimated the impregnability of my tenure though.
Also, it’s not an excuse but a lot of long term teachers are burnt out because the system is so ****ed not because they’re *******s.
It’s hard to get tenure and it’s almost impossible to fake a work ethic to get that far along.
My guess is that typically ****ty teachers are just a symptom of an overall systemic failure.
In Japan, teachers are given tenure from day one and they work hard as hell. That’s a cultural difference and real respect for education though.
Like pretty much anything though tenure has bad points as well.