Barack Obama on Merit Pay for Teachers

[MsJanetWood]

No one will want to teach ESL or remedial classes! (Students with behavior problems usually have academic deficiences.)

Furthermore, administrators with llitte classroom experience are evaluating teachers!

The truth is that they just just want to get rid of all the older, experienced, but expensive teachers and replace them with cheaper, albeit clueless younger teachers!

[DesireeHeartsYou]

@MsJanetWood

Anyone can improve. Merit pay is not about kids reaching a certain level its about them improving. therefore, teachers will push their kids to improve. Also, in most school, administrators have to have classroom experience before taking on such a position. Furthermore, the systems goal is to not get rid of the older more experienced teachers but weeds out all incompetent teachers young or old. Just because you've done something for a while, that doesn't mean you're good at it.