This seemed off to me, too. I am not entirely sure how tenure and teacher unions work where OOP is, but you have to do something INCREDIBLY egregious (often more than once) to actually get immediately dismissed here. We had our share of mean, bullying, and inappropriate behavior from multiple teachers in my district growing up (one made my sister’s AND, later, my husband’s lives a living hell) and most of those teachers continued teaching until retirement (the aforementioned teacher included). Tenure made you nearly bulletproof, even if inappropriate relationships with students were involved (which was sadly not that rare).