Stupid in America

[Moristans]

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To be fair, salary points are based on district approved training classes and district approved college credits. My Master's itself is worth $500 a year, but the credits I acquired during my masters and Ph.D are worth about 15K a year.

My point is, knowing that each district sets it's own pay scale and states determine how their public education is run, you can't make general statements.

Only 1 school district out of about 30 in the St. Louis area does merit based pay. They are in the top 3 performing wise in the state but recently just caved to switch back to education based pay.

I have no problem with merit based pay, as long as it's fair and based on something other than test score. At the very least, give me as much credit for busting my ass to move ghetto kids from Far Below Basic to Basic as the suburban teacher who churns out Proficient kids year after year for doing next to nothing and I'm on board.