(np) merit pay

[Michael Bailey]

a) I was interested to learn that only about 10% of school budgets
comes from federal money anyway.

wonder if any districts can or would stop taking the money so they
could set their own standards?
or does NCLB still apply even if you're not taking fed money?

hmmm...

b) anyway my point about merit pay is, it shouldn't come out of
existing pay but be added to
whatever the teachers are getting now.

c) ...and furthermore...I just can't stop thinking about how kids
should get paid...
because money is so very fundamental in our society, and yet they let
YEARS go by
where your daily life does not hinge on money at all...

so that, to this day, for me, money and its ramifications STILL seem
like things that the ideal life would
not have in it,

it's like my ideal life would just not have any need to deal with money
--- because I didn't get enough practice at an impressionable age, and
now, w/r/t money
 I'm out amidst a sea of sharpies, anxious, trying inadequate stratagems,
like the Old Man and the Sea and nary a scrap of my catch is left when
I get to the dock ----

whereas the things I did learn thoroughly in school (like sitting
quietly, reading attentively, talking in turn,
exercising, trying to figure out other people's viewpoints, etc) are still
pleasant and rewarding to do  // know whut I mean?


>
> I don't disagree with this out of hand but it's trickier than it appears.
> Too many folks out there looking for pat answers.   Right now we have one
> principal being demoted because that school couldn't raise their test
> scores.   (Not my school - we've done quite well so far but it looks bad for
> this year.)
>
> Bekah
>