- Pupil growth and development--condonement of poor teaching and its potential for affecting pupil growth and development.
- Management of tenure--inattention of school administrators to the important role of managing tenure and appraisal for maximum performance.
- School culture--system tradition and custom that defends tenure as an employment sinecure.
- Unionism--the charge that individual teacher responsibility has been replaced by organized collective dependence; the role U.S. teacher unions play in federal, state, and local politics; compulsory union dues for political purposes; union protection for teachers, right or wrong.