Tenure and teaching...huge topic in my beautiful state of Michigan.  Our latest legal change allows school districts to move teachers as they wish.  Seniority or tenure no longer protects a teacher's position.  Our district has used this new power to move teachers who don't want to move to positions that they are certified to teach, even though they may not have taught in that position or may not want to.  Teachers have made so many concessions and the one thing we had was security with tenure and seniority and now that is gone along with our pay and other things. It's becoming hard to make a living with the reduction of pay.  What is left to make teaching appealing to our youth when they know they will not have any benefits, security or money to survive?  I caution young people who want to be teachers to think long and hard before making it a profession.