Saturday

I do believe that teachers raise their game when the quality of teachers improve. This has actually been happening at my school over the past few years. We have had retirements, some of which were burning out and a staff member leave who was thought to be very negative. The new staff that has some in are highly qualified, as well as motivated. In turn, it has "breathed new life" into our school. When the authors were discussing merit pay, I agreed with them about the problem of individual merit pay. I believe this would foster too much competition and teamwork would become nonexistent. I do like the idea of merit pay by school, however. I think that would be a great team building motivator!!