Tenured? We are talking kindergarten here. Also, are you seriously comparing an advanced-degree career to blue-collar workers? How is it you'd institute a meri

Tenured? We are talking kindergarten here. Also, are you seriously comparing an advanced-degree career to blue-collar workers? How is it you'd institute a merit system? By the volume-of-students-per-hour, or what, exactly? The least complaining parents? Test scores that depend on parental involvement to be any good? How are disinterested or absentee parents or those parents who have it in for teachers accounted for in such a system?