CB> Many people believe that getting tenure guarantees a teacher a 
CB> lifetime job, even if the teacher's subsequent performance is lousy. 
    I can refer you to "Thompson vs. Bd. of Education", the definitive tenure 
case in this state in which the state supreme court said just how lousy 
performance will be accepted before a tenured teacher can be fired.  (292 
N.C. 406 or 233 S.E.2d 538).  It is almost impossible to fire any tenured 
teacher pursuant to the standard in that case.
CB> So they listen sympathetically to calls for abolishing tenure. But 
CB> tenure does nothing of the sort. It simply guarantees that there 
CB> will be some form of due process before a teacher can be dismissed. 
    Tenure laws and their interpretation by the courts also say what the 
standards for retaining people will be: how bad is bad enough to get fired.
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