Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling r

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Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

Merit based salaries have been attempted in many different fields with varying success. They are pretty effective in fields with easily quantifiable results such as software development or hardware engineering, but less practical with professions with multi-faceted or long term results. Teachers fall in the latter category and should not recieve salaries based solely on tne students' academic performacne.

Firstly, judging solely by academic performance ignores a teachers impact on students' mental health and other not-easily quantifiable influence. the children, especially in their earlier years are developing up not only academically, but also mentally. As people who guide them for a large portion of their school life can have signficant impact on general development of the students. For example my algebra teacher was the one to engrain the importance of scientific method in our minds, my grad-school geography teacher made remember the long term disadvantages of cheating through vivid visualizations. While such actions didn't directly impact the academic performance of the students, they are integral to forming chidlren into fully fledged members of the society. The proposed method would not account for this, thus thus unfarily evaluating teachers' contributions.

Furthermore, such a method can incentivize instructors to only focus on quitefiable results. Teachers might try to influence chidlren's academinc performance by narrowing the focus, getting rid of general education portions of the class, fully ignoring students less likely to improve their scores. Gone would be discussions with the mathematics professor about applied mathematics in computers, history teachers' attempts to help students overcome public speaking anxiety, and many other nuances that help foster soft and transferable skills in students. Morover, such an approach could incentivize borderline unethical behaviour prof the instructors. Like sharing notes exceedingly similar to the exams, dumbing down the subjects, and even resorting to the grade iunflation.

It has to be mentioned that implementing merit based system. Teachers might be encouraged to try out new teaching methodologies, devote more time and attention to classes, and reexamine their approach. Though, a scoring based only on the academic achivement could hardly avoid the pitfalls mentioned above. Consequently, developing a more complex system might be desirable.

In conclusion, I would say that due to multificeted nature of a teacher's influence on the children, students academic performance isn't enough to fairly judge the instructors contribitions, and can encourage detremental practices, thus such a system should not be implemented.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, thus, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2326.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 396.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.87373737374 5.05705443957 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09895713967 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598484848485 0.4932671777 121% => OK
syllable_count: 711.9 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.6225322198 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.421052632 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8421052632 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15789473684 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192532659428 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584484797375 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0411314945296 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110840327482 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313093653729 0.0667264976115 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.77 12.1639044944 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.13 8.38706741573 121% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 100.480337079 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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