01-29-2016, 02:20 PM
(01-29-2016, 12:32 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Locked in pay scale. So a teacher who has 10 years expierence and has mailed it in and a teacher with 10 years expierence who stays on the cutting edge of their profession while showing progress within the classroom..... They both get paid the same.
There is zero incentive to be the best. Your pay is the same whether you just show up and watch movies or actually have in depth lessons.
If your motivation to be the best at what you do is directly proportional to your salary you probably shouldn't be in that line of work. Especially teaching. I think teaching is a calling. The best teachers teach because they love teaching. They don't teach for the salary, they teach despite the salary. They do it because they think it is a valuable service to others and provides meaning to their own life. They see the real value is in how they can change the lives of others for the better. Hopefully, the lives they have helped to improve go on to do the same for others. And so on and so on. They have a quality called "selfless service." It means they care about others more than they care about a pay check and will place the education of others above their own finances.
Since in your own words "there is zero incentive to be the best" you obviously weren't one of those types of teachers.
