there was a second reason why the founders feared that bringing religion into politics would have a divisive effect on our young nation the rise of political and religious opportunists who would inflame political issues to further themselves separation of church and state part 2 the tartuffe factor everything everything tells us that if our goal really is to put a great teacher in every classroom reformsters educational thought leaders and rich unelected amateurs who somehow get to set education policy are going about it exactly backwards the attacks on tenure are literally the exact opposite of what is needed lets talk about teacher retention not tenure