Teacher Unions and Tenure

I think that teachers unions and tenure has their positives and negatives. Teachers unions can help a lot with protecting teachers against adults who are too quick to stain teachers reputations and bring charges against them when nothing has happened. They give teachers security so that they are not teaching in fear of losing their jobs. Some teachers may do things wrong that should be held accountable. However it protects teaching staff as a whole and not just individuals so that teachers are not charged with things they didn't do. Also they negotiate teacher's pay so they get payed an appropriate amount. I believe that tenure has more negatives because it is not terribly hard for a teacher to obtain tenure and some tenure teachers can be not so good teachers. However it is hard to fire them because they have tenure. I think there needs to still be evaluation of tenure teachers to make sure they are still trying to do their job to the best of their abilities. I think tenure and teacher unions are a good idea but there needs to be some sort of reform so there are only effective caring teachers out there and not ones that do not care as much because they know they have obtained tenure or have a teachers union behind them.