Sep 12

Written by: Sheridan
9/12/2007 1:41 PM

We've been hearing and reading a lot about merit pay for teachers in Oklahoma. Sounds like a good idea, but isn't it a little ironic that in a self-determination, bootstraps state like Oklahoma, we want to blame teachers instead of parents for poor school performance? Who wants to bet that teachers in schools from hardscrabble areas will be feeling the wrath of performance evaluations, while teachers in high-income districts will be pulling down handsome merit-paychecks? I have an idea. What about merit pay for parents? A thousand dollars for each 'A' at the end of the year and an extra grand for scoring above average on standardized tests? What do you want to bet we'd see a bunch of crackhead (and methhead) parents making their kids crack the books instead of their gangsta breathren's heads?

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