Imagine that you are the only chemistry teacher in a small community with only one high school. You are recognized as a great teacher by your principal, parents, and students. But during the summer, you are told by the superintendent that your services are no longer needed. You later learn that your replacement is the niece of that superintendent, a young woman who has just graduated from college and needs a job. It happens when teachers do not have so-called tenure.

Imagine that you are a single, young teacher in a very conservative and religious community. A school board member drives by your house early one morning and sees a married man coming out of your house. You are fired without an opportunity for a hearing, and you are not able to disclose that a fellow teacher was just giving you a ride to school that morning and came inside for a cup of coffee. It happens when a teacher has not earned so-called tenure.

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