DJ> MS> tenure case in this state in which the state supreme court
DJ> MS> said just how lousy performance will be accepted before a
DJ> MS> tenured teacher can be fired.
DJ> 
DJ> Gads, not this again from you. Today someone during dinner asked 
DJ> what it took to get a lousy teacher fired (the propaganda 
DJ> campaign is working). A very wise person smiled and answered, "a 
DJ> good administrator or peer review system like Toledo's."  
    Tenure laws vary enormously by state.  I can only tell you what the North 
Carolina situation is.
    In North Carolina, a tenured teacher is near-impossible to fire (Thompson 
vs. Bd. of Education) under the state's tenure laws as interpreted by our 
state's courts.  The Thompson case, our state's leading case in this area, 
deals with a teacher who was even kicking kids in his classroom and pulling 
their hair while routinely using obscene language.  The state supreme court 
ruled that nothing he had done was bad enough to justify firing him.
    Maybe Ohio's tenure laws are better.
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