Giraffe

Dr. Kalabash once said a tenured professor could only be fired for having intimate relations with a giraffe on the college Oval.

While that may be an exaggeration, it's not really too far off the mark.

But, at least college professors have to earn their tenure in the first place. It isn't automatically granted after 3 years. They have to do some work: create a dossier and be reviewed by a tenure committee and their department chair. The same should be true for public school teachers. If public school teachers support the system, they should be willing to serve on tenure committees for their peers.

They should also support merit bonuses.

Sure politics can invade the evaluation system, but maybe if there were fewer administrators they would have less time to be political. The first overhaul should be to the administrators, then tenue. It would fix a lot.