Sentences with phrase «lifetime guarantee of a job»
Not exact matches
Those were the days when a university degree automatically guaranteed a successful career or at least an acceptable income, when the freshmen already had a fairly precise idea of their career path, when most of the graduates remained in one profession for a lifetime and when jobs were passed on from father to son.
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As per Diane Ravitch in the latter link: «More: tenure is due process, the right to a hearing, not a guarantee of a lifetime job.
In the published presentation of results, the question about teacher tenure asks: «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»
The problem is, tenure does not guarantee teachers a job, does not offer any lifetime employment security, and, regardless of the implication of Time's question, does not just happen after a «certain amount of time.»
By 2018 all current teachers who have earned tenure will no longer have this benefit, which offers due process rights in the event of dismissal or demotion — not a guarantee of a lifetime job.