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>>After engineering college I went back to school to get a degree in History, which I accomplished, with the thought to become a teacher. I graduated and at the same time the schools in the San Francisco Bay Area were letting go tenured teachers who were Caucasian, to give African Americans an opportunity to become teachers. That was 1975.
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>You have evidence for that last statement? Letting tenured teachers go requires some serious due process. Giving hiring preference to minorities, I'd believe, but firing whites to hire minorities seems really unlikely.
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>Tamar


FYI,

from wikipedia, undex Tenure


Academic tenure is associated with university and college systems in North America, where it underpins employment; however, it is increasingly rare in other places[citation needed]. It became politically unpopular worldwide from the 1970s, where opponents charged that it removed incentives for its holders to be productive and unfairly relieves professors of the economic uncertainty felt by other workers. In addition, declining numbers of tenure-track positions in North America, against rising student numbers, have led to an unintended consequence: the emergence of a large scholarly underclass[citation needed]. For example, most US universities now supplement tenured professors with non-tenured adjunct professors, who teach classes on a contract basis for relatively low wages and few benefits. For these and other reasons, tenure was officially restructured in public universities in the United Kingdom by the Thatcher government in the 1980s. It has ceased to be offered in some parts of Australia (but not in New Zealand where tenure is referred to as confirmation) and in most European countries, and it has repeatedly come under attack at state universities in the United States.