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The problem with saying that teachers will have an incentive to make a bad school better is that they can not hope to compensate for massive socioeconomic diffe
by awjlogan 4y ago
The problem with saying that teachers will have an incentive to make a bad school better is that they can not hope to compensate for massive socioeconomic differences. If you pay solely on absolute results, all the good teachers are going to go to schools with favourable intake profiles, which are likely to be strongly correlated with house prices. This would be a further driver of inequality. There would have to be a realistic scaling factor, looking at improvement, perhaps, rather than absolute results.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe current system is an abject failure. Time for some old ideas that work, like paying for results achieved.
- awjlogan 4y agoYes, it’s clearly not working in some regards. Your basic suggestion, however, is also unrealistic - a school in isolation can not make up for all the problems of an area. Similarly, a brilliant teacher can only do so much. If they can move to a better area and bank their bonus for much less stress, they will do just that, leaving a failing area, and its children, with even worse provision. Frankly, there’s no straightforward solution. Better pay is probably part of it, but it’s a far more complex issue and one that has to be considered as part of a wider programme of improvement.