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Spartanmack
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I think it's the vast majority. It's not like you just sign up to be a teacher and get a paycheck. Getting trained is a pretty decent weedout process.
...and how do I have to word the question to get an actual link to the evidence mentioned here?
That's fine, but being motivated by noble intent doesn't make you a good teacher and is itself not justification for tenure. Of course people who care are more likely to be good teachers but this isn't about intent, it's about an absurd, arbitrary mechanism for bulletproof job security. The case found that it hurts students and disproportionately hurts economically disadvantaged students. And in NY, you can just get a job teaching - one of my best friends quit her job at a big bank flashed her undergrad degree (not in education) and MBA and started teaching in an NYC public middle school while she took what she described as a "Mickey Mouse" program over a couple months to receive her teaching certificate.
The evidence from the case doesn't appear to be available as of now. According to the NYT piece, the judge's final opinion won't be out until the end of the month - not sure if evidence/data will be out with that, before or after.
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