Re your post #23 - Well, how about this true scenario: a teacher agrees to be the supervisor for a student teacher. The student teacher is in her 3rd internship, which means she is responsible for everything that happens in that classroom for a semester. The next semester, the FCATS are given and the students score skky high, thanks to the innovative, hard-working student teacher who busted her *ss 24 hours a day for a semester. Now, who gets the $2,000 bonus? The older teacher who did nothing for a semester -- not the student teacher, who had to give up her paying job to take this final, required student internship to graduate. Is that fair?
PS BTW, here's what the student teacher earned that semester: $0. Nothing.