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> 1. You can absolutely be fired for cause as a tenured teacher in California, and it happens all the time. It's certainly more difficult than most other professions, but there is no law or policy preventing teachers from being fired.

My best friend from college was a guidance counselor at Hollywood high school. Besides from the foundations of the building crumbling, he told me that it was normal for teachers to get in physical fights with the students and in the aftermath you couldn't expel the student or fire the teacher. They were both locked into the system.