Boomer teachers retiring — should their replacements get $100,000?
Posted by: in Your BusinessIn response to my recent “rant” about the say of writing, several commenters said their opinions that teacher pay should be raised.
My first reaction to this statement was negative. I have never seen that throwing money at a problem caused the problem to improve. But after I checked on Miranda’s suggested news story, I had different thoughts. The story is about the efforts of the school district administrator in Washington, D.C., to raise give instructors merit pay, and tie their merit increases to increases in student accomplishment.
With the retirement of many baby boomer teachers, and a possible shortage of instructors coming within the next 10 years, maybe it is time for us to look at increasing instructor pay. If $100,000 a year sounds like a lot, what would you pay to have your kids taught by the ideal?
I’m with John McCain that we need to keep the great instructors and move the mediocre ones to other jobs. In McCain’s acceptance speech he said:
We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified teachers, attract and reward good instructors, and help bad instructors find another line of work.
Would paying them top dollar and tying that pay to performance be possible? Like in businesses? What a concept!
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