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Go Away Merit Pay!


 * The [|merit pay] is a pay scale for teachers that is based on performance, not tenure.
 * AFT's deputy director of educational issues Rob Weil is trying to link a teacher's salary to a student's test scores.
 * Merit pay takes education and strips it of it's dignity and integrity and turns it into a a rotten game of cheating their students out of learning. When a teacher needs good test scores to pay their bills they become corrupt. When pay becomes student performance based the grades could suddenly start to get much better.
 * But a new, large-scale survey finds that only one in every 14 teachers thinks it's a "very accurate measure" of teacher performance.
 * The legislation will establish a statewide teacher evaluation in [|Florida's] merit pay system in 2014 and do away with tenure for new teachers hired after July 1 this year. It also chips away at teachers' due process and collective bargaining rights.



- Some say : Merit based pay will encourage the teachers to work harder to help their students learn more. - We say : Merit pay will make teachers focus too much on test scores and not enough on the other aspects of learning that a child needs to mature such as the arts and social development. - Some say : Teachers will do a better job becuase thier salary depends on it. - We say : Teachers will become corrupt under the stress of dealing with slow or lazy students and cheat their way into sucess. - Some say : It provides the students with the energetic teacher who is willing to work hard to teach them. - We say : Teachers will be more worried about their salary and job security to even think about going above and beyond to have a meaningful relationship with their students.
 * **Does merit pay improve education? **
 * ==How does merit pay improve the quality of teachers? ==
 * ==Is merit pay beneficial to the students? ==

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Just a handful of schools and districts across the country have merit pay programs, and in some states the idea is effectively illegal.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Merit pay plans for teachers have been implemented in no more than 500 school districts out of some 14,000 districts nationwide, only 3.5 percent of the total.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The White House hoped to woo more states into passing merit pay laws with its $4.35 million "Race to the Top" grant competition.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This competition just shows how Obama is trying to "blind" the schools with money. When in true fact there are no quick fixes in our country's educational system.

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