Teachers Salary Controversy

The Controversy over Teacher Salary Behind every successful lawyer, doctor, or pharmacist, there were teachers. These teachers come from multiple venues, but the two most common types of schools for our students are private schools and public schools. They both work in different ways with a different set up. Private schools do not receive government money and have to raise their own funds. Public schools are funded by the government through the federal state and local taxes (Allegretto). People would think with that being said public schools are better, but elected school board members and education officials implement and oversee strict rules and procedures that they must follow. As for private schools, they have more leeway to run schools …show more content…
Pay teachers for the knowledge and skills they gain. Districts shouldn’t simply withhold monetary rewards from teachers who are ineffective: districts should help them improve or evaluate them out of the profession (Riegal). If they are not working equally hard or confronting similar challenges, then treating them equally is manifestly unfair and that is what the districts do today(Hess). Teachers who have tenure or contracts that secure their jobs regardless of their performance should not have tenure this allows them to do horrible in their jobs and principals are not able to remove them, this fails students and is highly unfair to those teachers who do their jobs and go above and beyond for their students. Looking at what is expected of teachers one would be shocked at what teachers actually have to do. Teaching third graders algebra is utterly ridiculous when the teachers are not even allowed to teach and get students to master basics in math and reading. The teachers are given rules on what they must teach and that list is so long that the teachers are not allowed to spend enough time on basics to build a more solid foundation to build on. When as an adult does the average person use algebra? However, everyone uses simple math every single day in paying bills, figuring how much money you have, or how much time until you have to be somewhere. All those things …show more content…
But how? The U.S should reform its system of determining teachers salaries, thereby attracting more outstanding individuals to the profession and in return increasing the quality of education. It is important to recognize that most teachers are fairly compensated for their work, but we also acknowledge that many of the teachers who outperform their peers are not rewarded. By reforming the teacher pay system to reward high -performing teachers would improve the education system