Ya, God forbid you get raises based on performance.
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?