Competition May Be Harmful to Our Students…
As my college career comes to an end, I am beginning to wonder if my decision of becoming an educator was such a good one. I have come to believe that a school is a place of collaboration with a focus on creating an environment where all students can achieve and succeed. I want so badly to be a part of this, but I am afraid that by implementing performance based pay to the teachers, everything positive in the schools across the country will change. My advice to the future president would be to reconsider allowing performance based pay in education. I agree with those individuals that argue that this will help the school districts get rid of those ancient teachers that are still practicing methods that were once popular in the “Stone Age”, but I think that the other side of the argument could cause a major change of focus in the schools. By placing teachers in an environment where helping another teacher would hinder their chance for a pay increase, we are destroying the chance for our students to receive the best education possible. Successful teachers will not want to share their methods and experiences with new teachers because that would mean that they are in a sense “helping the other team”. How are we as teachers supposed to set an example for our students to be kind and helpful individuals who work together to fix a problem, when we have so much competition and greed between us. Our students will suffer because of this and in the long run our nation will also suffer because we will be unable to provide a quality education for all. The educational system in the United States has enough issues to deal with and implementing the practice of performance based pay is an idea that with alteration and revisions could possibly be welcomed.
This post was submitted by Samantha Bush.
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