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7. Teacher tenLure aids the teacher to grow in service,
Surveys conducted by educational associations have found
that the teachers in states where there is tenure attend
school and improve themselves educationally much the same
as in the non-tenure states.
8. Teacher tenure enables the teacher to live a more
normal life and to be more free in expressing his own in-
dividuality within the proper bounds. A teacher is a
persnthe same as anyone else.
9. Teacher tenure aids the school boards as well as
the teachers because it relieves them from political or group
pressure. :ere a position is covered by tenure, a school
trustee can not ask for the dismissal of a teacher on a
mere technicality or at the wish of one of the influential
patrons.
10. Teacher tenure sets up standards for teachers
and provides methods for dismissing inefficient workers.
Instead of holding the inefficient worker in the school,
teacher tenure provides a better means of eliminating this
kind of teacher from the profession.
11. Teacher tenure enables the teacher to be a better
citizen. He can establish a home, raise a family, and help
build a better community. His home and all hisa interests
will be in the cemmnity.
12. Teacher tenure will enable the teacher to better
instill the principles of democracy in children because they
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Martin, Wesley. To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas, thesis, August 1946; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53455/m1/24/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .