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I have never understood the educational purpose of tenure for pre-university level teachers. It just seems like a symptom of teacher unions holding the system h

• yummyfajitas 17y ago
  Or even for non-research tenured professors. Actually, even among research professors, tenure is used more to protect the lazy than to protect academic freedom. Every department has plenty of deadwood, but rarely more than one or two people with radical ideas.