Merit Pay
I would first like to start out by saying that I am very interested in this topic. A teacher of mine had us do a presentation for a significant amount of time which really helped in my knowledge of this subject. At first in my research, I thought that Obama didn’t support merit pay. My teacher later cleared it up for me that he does stand for merit pay, but only for teachers who truly deserve it. My question that keeps being raised is how do we, and who judges who gets paid more. I feel that I have significant education to help me be the best teacher possible…but I know that there will be someone down my career road that will think differently. What if I go into a school and I have a disagreement with my superiors. Will my pay be cut because they don’t agree with one of my opinions? This is one issue that I am extremely nervous about and really wish to know an answer to. Another concern I have is teacher collaboration. If I borrow a teachers work down the hall…get commended on it, and get a pay raise, will that be considered fair to the people I work so closely with. My advice to the president would be to strongly pay attention to education. It has been terribly overlooked and it is time to make some changes. I am relieved to see that Obama has taken consideration that teachers who work extremely hard deserve to be paid more. I am especially happy to know that he wants to pay teachers across the board more money. It is relieving to have a president who is taking education seriously.
This post was submitted by April.
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