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This is a point that would have been worth stating clearly in an article on efforts by many Republican governors to eliminate teacher tenure. In every jurisdiction that has tenure, teachers who are demonstrated to be incompetent can be removed from the classroom and fired. However administrators must take the time to document that a teacher is incompetent before they can be fired. Many school administrators choose not to bother with the effort to remove under-performing teachers.