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.
Teaching is one of the most important professions in the country. A country's future and its people's well being depends upon the quality of education one receives. But there are some flaws in our formal education system and one of them is incompetence teachers. The prompt advocates that teachers' salaries should depend upon students' merit. I agree with the author with a minor alteration that the base component of the salary should be fixed and the school should provide a bonus component based upon student performances for these three reasons.
Firstly, every teacher should be paid some fixed base salary based on his or her experience. This is required since if the entire salary is dependent upon students' performance, there is a possibility that a teacher might not get paid for his or her work. However, someone can argue that if all of the students of a particular class didn't perform well in the examinations, then it is a teacher's fault. This is flawed since the end result is completely dependent upon students and the failure of students cannot be completely blamed upon teachers. In the end, it is the student's responsibility to learn. Therefore, it is logical that a teacher should receive fixed pay.
However, if there is an incentive(additional bonus salary) component involved based on the student's academic performances then it is more likely that a teacher will do his or her work diligently. The option basically provides an incentive for teachers to focus on the entire class. For instance, in a certain section of a class, 20% of students scored excellent marks, 50% scored average and 30% were below average. This 30% of students played a significant role in lowering down the entire class's average score. Therefore, it is more likely that a teacher will start focussing on weak students because there is an incentive involved. But what about areas apart from academics? Why should not a football coach be paid a bonus salary if the team wins an inter-school football trophy? Hence, in my opinion, the bonus program should also be available to the area out of academics too.
Lastly, there are some issues with this system though. For instance, most of the school have capacity limits for classrooms. In that case, the school creates multiple sections of a class, and sometimes these sections are based on academic competency. Now, if one teacher gets a section of all topper students and the other one gets the section of average students then it will be unfair for the later one since whatever he or she does, there is a high possibility that the topper section will still perform better. Hence, we should try to mitigate these issues as far as possible. For example, in the above case, the school should avoid dividing the section based on the merit and instead may divide based on the even and odd roll numbers.
To sum up, allocating a certain component of a teacher's salary based on student's performance both academic and extra-curricular is a good suggestion. It has its own merit and issues. But rather than rejecting it outright, we should try to resolve those and make the most out of it.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: all the
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Suggestion: students'; student's
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Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
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Suggestion: students'; student's
...component of a teachers salary based on students performance both academic and extra-cur...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, therefore, well, apart from, for example, for instance, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2601.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 532.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88909774436 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80261649409 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71878272316 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453007518797 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 826.2 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.3300334221 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8928571429 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.60714285714 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238636521686 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682229477808 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510638138233 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149224793417 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0343201251333 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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