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.
The theory that teacher’s salaries should be based on their students’ academic performance might appear to be beneficial on the outside; however, looking deeper into this argument, one will find that it is opaque and the argument is flawed. To make this claim, the author must have supporting evidence for the following issues.
First, there are many factors that effect a student’s performance that are out of a teacher’s control. For example, if a student comes from a low socioeconomic class, it is likely that they will have a difficult home life and their parents will not be involved in their academic performance. Family environment and parent involvement are a huge factors that affect a student’s performance. If a teacher has a class of students with parents that are not involved in their academic achievements, the academic performance of this class will more than likely be low.
Furthermore, it would not be fair for a teacher that got placed with a general education class to have a smaller salary than a teacher who received a high academic or honors class, because this is a decision that is made by the school board and not the teacher. The students in the general education class, will not perform as well as student in an honors class, which can be seen in the discrepancies between the class’ test scores. The honors students are well prepared for standardized tests due to their rigorous course load they have studied for a year. While, in the general education class, the course load is lighter and at a slower pace so the students can grasp the material being taught. Typically, students in the general education class do poorly or fail standardized tests, which requires the teacher to remediate the students. With the remediation process, the teacher will have to put extra time and energy into remediation, which will cause them to spend more hours working. With this being said, it would not make sense for a teacher who works more than another teacher to make less due to their student’s performance.
Finally, if teacher’s salaries were based on their student’s performances, it would not encourage the teachers to teach for education; instead, they would teach on how well their students can perform on a test. A Teacher needs to facilitate fun and engaging learning environments that are specific to their student’s needs. If a teacher was only teaching for money, they would neglect many of the core principles of education and learning.
While the author’s argument appears to be suitable on the outside, it fails to address many key components that need to be made for this argument to be reliable. To make this claim, the author must address the affect a student’s home environment has on their academic performance, the difference between honors and general education classrooms, and the core principles that encompass teaching and education.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, so, well, while, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2476.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15833333333 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00882959896 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429166666667 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 754.2 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.9821016205 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.555555556 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88888888889 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235745834286 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930739272614 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420086695558 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154634681736 0.150359130593 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024528402138 0.0667264976115 37% => 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: 16.2 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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