LA Times on tenure

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-tenure21mar21,0,3605685.story

EDITORIAL
Rewards, Not Tenure: The Los Angeles Times
March 21, 2005

Here's how a California teachers union leader protests efforts to make the state's teachers work more years before getting tenure: Who, she asks, takes a job in which he or she must spend five years without tenure? Uh, most of us, actually.

Mary Bergan, who heads the California Federation of Teachers, points out rightly that too many teachers leave in their first few years. Eliminating tenure would make it harder to attract and keep teachers, she contends. Teachers are said to need tenure as protection from fussy parents and weak principals.

Even if that were true — and it's not — the last thing California classrooms need is teachers who enter the profession for a chance at a lifelong sinecure after two years. Thank goodness very few of them do.

This editorial reveals again how newspaper editorial boards have claimed knowledge and expertise on educational matters. And, the editorial reveals again why those of us in education need to develop better public responses, such as a blog.
For more on this see, The Republican Noise Machine: Right Wing Media and how it corrupts democracy. (2004) David Brock.

By the way. See the L.A. Times sections on school improvement. They "know" how to teach reading too.
I hope that they get a job teaching. One year of teaching experience as they would quickly find out how much they do not know about life in schools- and learning to read.