[Amelia]

Instead of basing pay on say how many years a teacher has taught, base it on how well the students and parents are satisfied with the teacher.

Do you think that's fair? I despised my high school English teacher, until I got to college and discovered she'd really done quite a good job -- I found the college English classes much easier than many of my classmates did.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Yes, see post 88, not every teacher needs to be liked to be effective, and some are liked for the wrong reasons or because they are loose with grades. I would not use a single criterion any more than my boss at Lockheed (after I was laid off by the senority system) would use only one criteria in my evaluations. But to pay every teacher the same pay, regardless of how many students they teach or how well, or what other skills they bring, only relying on the number of years they have taught is more than strange, its fatal.