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My daughter’s Chicago public high school had a policy that report cards were not sent home with the students, but rather parents had to come to the school to pick them up. They used the same day as parent/teacher conference time. The students had the day off from school three times each year, and the teachers all sat in the school’s cafeteria. Parents were supposed to come to the school, get their child’s report card, then go and visit the teachers if they wanted to.My daughter went to a magnet high school, which meant it pulled students in from all over the city. For some parents, getting their child’s report card required a day off of work and an hour-long drive each way.Still, the school refused to send report cards home with the students. If you didn’t pick them up on the official pick-up day, they kept them in the school office until you came and got them on your own time.But that wasn’t the worst part.One year, Chicago Public School teachers were in contract negotiations with the city. The negotiations weren’t going well, and the teachers were threatening to strike.I took the afternoon off of work to go and pick up my daughter’s report card. I didn’t need to speak to any of her teachers. I just wanted to know her grades.I arrived at the school and walked into the main doors, as usual. Except this time, I was greeted by a teacher at a table full of clip boards. He insisted that I had to “sign in” before I could proceed to the cafeteria, where the report card pick-up took place. All of the other parents signed in without question.I try to avoid signing things without knowing why, so I read the top of the sheet everyone was signing.It wasn’t a sign-in sheet at all, but a statement of support for the teachers’ union and the teachers’ demands in the contract negotiations. They were trying to trick or force parents to claim support for their union.I refused to sign their fake “sign in” sheet. I walked past the table and the teacher behind it, went to the cafeteria, got my daughter’s report card, and walked out.Later in the week, I saw a news report on the local NBC affiliate claiming that “in a recent survey, over 95% of parents supported the Chicago Teachers’ Union in their negotiations with the city.”Yet another reason I don’t trust statistics in the news. It’s way too easy to get the statistics you want to support your pre-chosen narrative.

NO. At least not in the near future.UPDATE: my answer may give you a false impression that ALL Koreans are racist and bigoted. That is definitely NOT THE CASE, especially among younger people, and those who have traveled the world. It just so happens that racists and bigots make themselves heard, even when they do not constitute the majority of population, in any country of the world.Racial equality propagandaIn this answer I will only cover Korea, but being an extremely racially homogeneous country it seems to be the perfect example for your question.I lived in Korea from 2009 to 2014 and saw all kinds of foreigners living there for years, who are still not fully integrated into the society no matter how hard they try. Even if you speak Korean perfectly, as long as you are different from Koreans in appearance, ethnic origin, or country of birth, you will not be fully accepted as a Korean.Foreigners will be called foreigners there, even if they acquire Korean citizenship. Few people care what your passport says. You will still be judged by your appearance and origin. I'm sorry to say this, but I was lucky to be a white person there, because for some reason many Koreans think that white people are superior to them, while my Black and Asian friends with darker skin were having a much harder time in the country. Some Koreans think the Chinese are dirty, the Japanese are evil monsters, the Russians are prostitutes, and the rest of the developing world are low class poor people who only dream of coming to their beloved country.These absurd and racist notions are widespread and fueled by biased media reports. Recently a major Korean TV channel MBC aired a report called "MBC Shocking Truth About Relationships with foreigners", which generated a significant backlash from foreigners living in Korea: MBC Producer: What’s the Fuss About?ImmigrantsThis is Jasmine B. Lee, a Filipina who acquired her Korean citizenship by marrying a Korean and became the first non-ethnic Korean to become a member of the National Assembly of South Korea (대한민국 국회, the Korean parliament) in 2012:After Ms. Lee’s election, anti-immigration activists warned that “poisonous weeds” from abroad were “corrupting the Korean bloodline” and “exterminating the Korean nation,” and urged political parties to “purify” themselves by expelling Ms. Lee from the National Assembly.“They bring religious and ethnic strife to our country, where we had none before,” said Kim Ky-baek, publisher of the nationalist Web site Minjokcorea. “They create an obstacle to national unification. North Korea adheres to pure-blood nationalism, while the South is turning into a hodgepodge of mixed blood.”The government itself stands accused of fostering xenophobia by requiring foreigners who come to South Korea to teach English to undergo H.I.V. tests, but not requiring the same of South Koreans in the same jobs. Last year, an Uzbek-born Korean made news when she was denied entry to a public bath whose proprietor cited fear of H.I.V. among foreigners.“Back in 1995, people adored me for saying ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ in Korean, though that was practically the only Korean I knew,” Ms. Lee said. “Beginning around 2000, however, people started looking at me suspiciously. On the bus, they’d ask, ‘Why are you here?’ ”Ms. Lee, who has a son and a daughter, said she used to avoid parent-teacher conferences at her son’s school for fear that he would be bullied if other students learned of his multiethnic roots. There were many news reports to justify her fear.Source: New York Times - Demographic Shifts Redefine Society in South KoreaChildrenThere are numerous so-called multicultural families, which consist of a Korean husband and a foreign wife (usually a mail-order bride from Southeast Asia). Children from these families often suffer bullying in Korean schools. My African friend and his Korean wife are planning to send their daughter to an international school, because she will be bullied at a public school due of her distinct appearance.Here is an excerpt from Multicultural Children Still Face Discrimination:In a survey of 186 children from cross-cultural homes last year, the National Human Rights Commission found that 37 percent had been bullied at school. Some 41.9 percent were ridiculed because of their strange accent, and 21 percent were told by their classmates to "go back your country."Here is more: Korean society struggles to embrace multiculturalismAn American English teacher recently led her class in a ball game to help [children] learn.Whoever had the ball had to throw it and exchange seats with the classmate who caught it. They all enjoyed themselves, except for one ― a Japanese-Korean child, whom the other students called “dirty.”“If we passed a ball around in a circle, it would stop with him, (and) no one wanted to touch the ball after him. They’d run and get paper towels so that the ball he touched wouldn’t touch them directly,” the 23-year-old teacher at a school in Nowon-gu, northern Seoul, told The Korea Herald.She was dumbfounded when her Korean co-teachers said that no intervention was necessary.Nadoni Luna, 29, a Bangladesh-born woman who married a Korean man 5 years ago points to barriers to foreign immigrants and their children.“People judge me by how rich my mother country is, and how dark my skin is. They never see me as Korean, and I am worried about the lives of my future children,” she said.“We, migrants alone, cannot break prejudice and discrimination against us. It will never happen by just our efforts. Multicultural families need help from all community members and a little understanding of difference” she said.Overseas CompatriotsMany Koreans are so nationalistic they do not even regard overseas-born Koreans (e.g. Korean Americans, Koreans from China, Soviet Koreans) who return to reside in Korea as Koreans at all. They reckon, if, for example, you are born in China – you are Chinese, regardless of your ancestry. Such a narrow-minded view is caused by the fact that ethnicity, nationality and citizenship were considered to be the same thing for hundreds of years in the Hermit Kingdom.It's a popular belief Korea is changing fast, but for the Korean society learning to accept people of different origins as their fellow countrymen will take more time.I will be happy to get feedback from Korean Quorans and modify this answer accordingly, if necessary.More references:Imperfect multiculturalismMembers of Multicultural Families, Are They Koreans?P.S: I've heard the situation with foreigners is kind of similar in Japan as well, but I am not qualified to talk about that country.

Most of the tenured teachers, I would venture, are the best and most seasoned teachers in a school.The most community spirited ones mentor other teachers. They do things above and beyond the call of duty (outside their job description) like stay after school and tutor kids who need it; man the textbook check-in at the end of the year; do hall duty with a practiced eye; handle parent-teacher conferences like the experts they are -- and thousands of other things I can't remember to list right now. They run the school spirit and create motivation, an unmeasurable value contributing to excellence in education.At-will employment without contracts or tenure is unthinkable because a teacher could then quit at any time or be terminated at any time and for any reason. It would create an untenable power in principals and create a toxic political and cutthroat environment as teachers vie for the grace and goodwill of their principal.If teachers work under a year to year contract but without tenure, the culture of a school would change depending on the numbers of teachers replaced annually.Some schools would benefit from some new blood, but if too many teachers are replaced at a time, as often happens in schools with majority populations of underserved students, then continuity of the culture is lost and a more chaotic administration of education results.So getting rid of tenure may penalize the best teachers and deprive students of the pinnacle in learning inspiration. I suppose it could also weed out those who lost their zeal for the profession or who lack the knack to inspire students. I don't see the value to students in getting rid of tenure IF there were appropriate methods devised to get rid of teachers who can't or won't teach.I think it best to allow teacher jobs to be 'safe' and for their contracts to continue to the next year when a variety of inputs in addition to the Principal's is considered. Among these inputs should be student surveys, parent surveys, fellow teacher surveys, staff surveys, and the teacher's own self-survey. All stakeholders should have some say in the quality of education students receive. How this formula is created is a question for another day.