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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 26 2005, 07:48 AM (461 Views) | |
| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 07:48 AM Post #1 |
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Why have tenure? Why have an employee you can't fire? This link says because it protects teachers that teach unpopular opinions. Huh? Like what? http://www2.nea.org/he/tenure.html |
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| Mark | Jun 26 2005, 08:01 AM Post #2 |
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Tenure is one of those things that have always had me scratching my head wondering why. Why would any profession offer tenure to anybody? I am not even happy about the lifetime appointment of judges. |
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| apple | Jun 26 2005, 08:09 AM Post #3 |
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fancy union labor... (the NEA of course is for tenure) |
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| Dewey | Jun 26 2005, 08:19 AM Post #4 |
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Tenure is a bad idea, and at worst, provides a smokescreen of respectability where none should be given. Tenure almost never protects professors teaching or writing things that are unpopular - assuming, of course, that you're talking about "unpopular with the educational administration and establishment" as opposed to "unpopular with the students and parents, who are paying them and relying on the best education for their money." The truth is that anyone teaching at college level who espouses viewpoints unpopular with the first group are either gotten rid of before tenure is available to them, or they're relegated to "instructor" or similar non-tenure tracks which doom them to marginalization within the academic community. Maybe it isn't this way in every case, but from what I've seen, tenure's primary function is the protection of the educational/sociopolitical status quo, not protection of any concept of advancement of knowledge (and heaven forbid, wisdom) via open discourse. |
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| Florillo | Jun 26 2005, 09:14 AM Post #5 |
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I say dump tenure so we can fire those stupid communist/socialist liberal teachers and get people in there with morals. |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 09:20 AM Post #6 |
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Many things labled as morals are relative. So, who's morals? |
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| Rick Zimmer | Jun 26 2005, 09:23 AM Post #7 |
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A perfect example of one of the reasons for tenure. |
| [size=4]Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul -- Benedict XVI[/size] | |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 09:25 AM Post #8 |
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Good point Rick. But overall my jury is still out on tenure. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 26 2005, 09:26 AM Post #9 |
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If that's the case, then why would you be against tenure? After all, there could never be anything IMMORAL about tenure, could there? |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 09:40 AM Post #10 |
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IT Who said I was against tenure? I am questioning so I can learn. |
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| Florillo | Jun 26 2005, 10:20 AM Post #11 |
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Christian morals. Any other so called morals are just shams. They are not the will of God. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 26 2005, 10:26 AM Post #12 |
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Are you a troll or an authentic Christian? Your lack of subtlety is giving you away. |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 10:33 AM Post #13 |
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Actually IT I am suspicious of subtlety. At least this person speaks from the heart, much like I do. Sometimes learning takes you away from yourself. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 26 2005, 10:39 AM Post #14 |
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I don't think that they are "speaking from the heart". Florillo either is an extreme fundamentalist (but his or her other comments using langauge such as "bete noir" argues against that), or s/he is a liberal trying to undermine the discussion by saying things that are outlandish in the persona of a Christian. If it is the latter, which is my supposition -- that makes s/he a troll. Kind of ironic that you are arguing for black and white and not shades of gray.
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 10:45 AM Post #15 |
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Ironic? |
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| Florillo | Jun 26 2005, 10:55 AM Post #16 |
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All tenure does is facilitate the entrenched liberal faculty of our institutions of so called higher learning that turn out supposedly educated liberals. Tenure should be abolished to get rid of the stranglehold liberals have on education. Now if stating my opinion plainly makes me a troll then thats too bad. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 26 2005, 11:01 AM Post #17 |
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I think that's the right word. Maybe you need a new dictionary. ![]() Ironic in that you argue constantly for relativity, yet here you are against the subtleties of thinking that might lead to nuanced to more moderate positions. But on second thought, perhaps it is not ironic if you are really very dogmatic about things, and you only use your language of relativity to disarm your opponents, or through sloppy feelings that you mistake for rational argument, or have been taught that the language of "tolerance" is an effective political rhetoric for promoting the homosexual agenda... I don't know, Kenny. What do you really think/feel about it?
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| ivorythumper | Jun 26 2005, 11:05 AM Post #18 |
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That was not your earlier argument -- you invoked "the will of God". I could agree with you on these terms, but your other statement seems to be either knee-jerk or baiting. |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 11:13 AM Post #19 |
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There are no schools with tenure with conservatives in charge? What is the purpose of a school? To be neutral? To turn out students who can think for themselves and become themselves, be that lefties, righties or middlees? Or is it to guide those young minds so they grow up to become like the educators? |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 11:14 AM Post #20 |
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What? Use fewer words please. I can't understand you. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 26 2005, 11:20 AM Post #21 |
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So when you argue with Jose do you put your hands over your ears and shout "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!"
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| apple | Jun 26 2005, 11:23 AM Post #22 |
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how about steeley |
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| Florillo | Jun 26 2005, 11:24 AM Post #23 |
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So are you argueing then that Christian morals are not the will of God? Kenny asked who's morals should be the base for getting rid of liberal faculty. Liberal professors that follow some false godless morality should be replaced with professors that follow true Christian morals. The most eficient way of doing that is to abolish tenure because as long as tenure remains in practice educational institutions will remain bastions of godless liberalism. |
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| apple | Jun 26 2005, 11:26 AM Post #24 |
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you need to move to Kansas Flo |
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| kenny | Jun 26 2005, 11:27 AM Post #25 |
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Aren't there Christian Colleges? There is Loyola Marymont University in Los Angeles. |
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