(np) merit pay

[alice wellintown]

In America, money is sooo easy to come by. Poor people got no reason
to live. Poot teachers, those who can't and therefore must teach,
should be roasted, salted, seasoned, and fed a strong Irish diet; they
should be fatted-up on proposals modest and immodest, then carved up
and served with ales and Milton.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this!  I was so gratified to find that I am not the only
> otherwise competent person who remains mystified by (and generally bereft
> of) money.  Perhaps if I had been paid for my almost-always-excellent
> grades, I wouldn't be living in a friend's cold basement at my advanced age!
>
>
> 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?
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >
>
>
>
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