<p>If the teacher is so terrible, I think the kids would have heard about it from her students long before the administrator said anything. And that does seem weird and unprofessional from the administration. But I do think tenure prevents teachers from being fired just for being bad. I can think of two bad teachers in my high school who I learned were fired years later. Both had been teaching for over 20 years. I think the administration was just waiting for them to do something actionable. One of them made “inappropriate comments” to a female student, I think regarding how she was conducting her personal life.</p>