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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should be paid more and we should demand excellence because of it.[/quote]

Then I demand excellence in parenting. When parents send children to school who are unavailable to learn then the parents should be held accountable. No electronics or other forms of leisure enjoyment for the parents  until the child is taught to be respectful. I can teach a child academic content but they will become behind very quickly if I need to teach manners, basic courtesy and how to be a student prepared to learn for weeks or even months in some cases.  I receive no compensation for teaching these skills that should have been taught at home.

But with merit pay, my pay will be tied to how parents decide to raise their children. I'm all for merit pay with controlled variables but there are very few controlled variables in teaching. There are usually 2: the first is students will be in the classroom and the second is that you will teach them something. The rest can vary substantially.

-teacher [/quote]

I don't understand this. We shouldn't demand excellence in teaching? I think we should.

I don't think, however, that merit pay is the way to go. Merit pay is not going to get good people to go into teaching, and it's also not going to improve teacher education and teacher training. The only person I've ever known in the education field who favored merit pay was one of my education professors, who said, "I support merit pay, because I would get it!" Not if I were awarding it, he wouldn't have.[/quote]

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