Here in Tennessee the legislature's been fighting hard against tenure for years. At my kid's school an alarming number of teachers are leaving after this year,

Here in Tennessee the legislature's been fighting hard against tenure for years. At my kid's school an alarming number of teachers are leaving after this year, reportedly due to bad evaluations (not public information, unfortunately) with the gung-ho principal and no recourse. The ones leaving are generally well thought of by the parents. It seems that "team player" is weighted a lot higher than teaching ability here. I don't know that tenure is really the answer, but currently public school teachers are much more at the whim of administrators than college instructors are. It feels like they're trying to drive the teachers away so they can declare the whole public education thing a failure and kill it.