Debate: Does Tenure Protect Bad Teachers or Good Schools?
Do job protections prevent bad faculty from being removed or do they provide for greater stability in a demanding, low-paid profession?

Claim: Tenure does not provides stability
Reason: The difficulty in firing a tenured teacher is not a justifiable reason that tenure is wrong.
Warrant 0: It is difficult to fire a tenured teacher
Warrant 1: It is not impossible to fire a tenured teacher
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not provides stability
Reason: Without tenure, there are too many little things that teachers could lose their jobs over.
Warrant 0: both good and bad teachers are protected with tenure
Warrant 1: good teachers are protected with tenure
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not protect bad teachers
Reason: Because of tenure, only a very small number of teachers are fired for cause.
Warrant 0: not many teachers are fired
Warrant 1: not many bad teachers are fired
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not protect bad teachers
Reason: Many of them lost interest in teaching long ago and only continue for the retirement.
Warrant 0: tenure by its nature protects the bad
Warrant 1: tenure by its nature protects the good and the bad in the belief in the greater good
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Tenure does not protect bad teachers
Reason: Teachers are safe from review.
Warrant 0: good reviews lead to tenure
Warrant 1: good reviews do not lead to tenure
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not provides stability
Reason: Older teacher taught new one discipline and techniques.
Warrant 0: new teachers method may not work
Warrant 1: old teachers method may not work
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Tenure does not protect bad teachers
Reason: Tenure allows for teachers who drink on the job or fall asleep at their desks to bargain for bonuses and increased retirement in order to get rid of them.
Warrant 0: tenure also protects good teachers
Warrant 1: tenure protects all teachers
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not provides stability
Reason: Teachers only have the assurance that they can't be fired on a whim.
Warrant 0: bad teachers don't like being fired on a whim
Warrant 1: teachers don't like being fired on a whim
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not provides stability
Reason: Without tenure, there are too many little things that teachers could lose their jobs over.
Warrant 0: all of the little reasons are good reasons to fire teachers
Warrant 1: none of the little reasons are good reasons to fire teachers
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not provides stability
Reason: Teachers in Finland are unionized and students perform well.
Warrant 0: a different system is in place
Warrant 1: a similar system is in place
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Tenure does not protect bad teachers
Reason: A system that removed the tired teachers would improve their morale.
Warrant 0: we do not need teacher's moral to be somewhere in the middle
Warrant 1: we need teacher's moral to be somewhere in the middle
Correct warrant: 1