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RE: There are bad students...but more so, it's mostly just shitty teachers.
I wrote about a similar subject a few weeks ago and I very much agree. It is easy to lay blame on the "bad students" but I think that they are often the product of bad teachers.
"Any effort to connect a student's success with a teacher's pay has been resisted to the extreme as well."
That really is a shame because I have always liked that idea to some degree.
To be fair, there are tons of ways you can link a teacher's pay to a student's success poorly...but in cases like that, you have the choice to fight to do it better...or not to do it at all.
It's seemed to me that the teachers always fight a bit too hard against this idea, rather than fighting to do it correctly.
I personally don't want the pay directly tied to test scores, because that will lead to teaching according to tests...but there should be a monetary incentive to improve the evaluation of students. Teachers need to feel like it is their job to not just stand in front of a classroom, but try to teach the students, and prepare them for their future.