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Trending: Students Want Bad Teachers Out, File Lawsuit Against Tenure
Students in California are challenging tenure for teachers in a lawsuit that could have far-reaching implications.
Los Angeles, California – Should teachers who do a poor job be protected from losing their jobs?
Nine students in California don't think so. Fed up with the education system, the students have sued and are challenging tenure requirements.
"If no one is going to stand up and change the system for us, then we have to stand up and change it ourselves," high school senior Brandon Debose, Jr., said in a report by KABC.
The lawsuit charges that the students' education was compromised by lousy teachers: "Instead of learning our subject, we sat in class coloring and watching YouTube videos," plaintiff Kate Elliottt said in the KABC report.
The students are challenging California's policy of giving teachers tenure after 18 months and the state's practice of letting the most recently hired teachers go first when layoffs occur, the New York Times reported.
Teachers' unions argue that tenure protects teachers from being fired unfairly and is an earned benefit that helps schools recruit and keep the best possible people to be teachers, the New York Times reported.
Read the full story on the New York Times website.
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