The concept of rewarding teachers for performance conflicts with the current public school model of “no child federal dollars left behind”.
When your only strategy is to overwhelm the system, the more ways you can think of to piss money away, the better.
Her first science fair attempt produced two fifth (5th) grade students whose projects outscored hundreds of sixth (6th), seventh (7th), and eighth (8th) grade competitors, (including first place) in our Region -- and qualified for State competition.
Her reward? She was laid off at the end of that year for "lack of seniority".
As a Latin teacher, I object.