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More A's, More Pay
theodp writes "Little slashdotters may find teacher a tad more upset when they screw up on a test. The Dept. of Education just launched the first federal program that uses bonuses to motivate teachers who raise test scores in at-risk communities, awarding $42M this month to 16 school systems. Any fears that teachers might cook the books to score a typical $5,000 payoff? Not to worry, says Chicago's school chief, there are statistical analyses in place that spot testing irregularities, presumably better at catching Cheaters than those used in the past."
That's ridiculous. Do people in competitive jobs rate themselves and set their bonuses? No -- management does based on their additional value to the employer. You are only worth paying what you are worth earning -- including educators.
If you want to see teachers paid better, take a noose to publicly-funded education. In a competitive market, good teachers would get paid more for their value, bad teachers would get canned. In the public education system, all educators are basically treated equally and paid equally and are expected to do equally low tasks. It is yet another Statist program with almost no real oversight.
By the way, the teachers in my State (Illinois) are incredibly paid for the work they perform. They keep saying they're doing it for the children, but they're the first to picket when their pay doesn't meet what they expect.
What pisses me off, is that the teachers are in a money hungry union.
Yeah, wanting a decent salary is so greedy. Way to tear down fellow members of the middle class, buddy.
Well, what do you think happened after the dot-com bust? I didn't get as big of a raise, yet the teachers did.
So teachers should bend over to show solidarity with the dot com workers who had to take one up the ass? What kind of sense does that make?
They are protected by a union contract, get a nice raise...oh and we cannot fire them.
Myth. You can certianally fire bad teachers, you just have to prove that they are bad teachers, as opposed to a couple affluent families complaining about why their kids have to repeat a grade.