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 fundamental duty of teachers is to impart knowledge to their students in the best possible fashion. The theory that teachers' salaries should be based solely on the academic performance of their students is more harmful than it is productive as it calls for a comparison of two different unrelated parameters. I do not concur with the afformentioned statement because of the statements mentioned below.
The central assumption of this argument is that students’ performance would improve if teachers salaries depend on how well their students perfom academically. However, this claim is flawed because other factors which are responsible for the success of a student, the efforts taken by the student, the availability of study material, the environment at their home and so on. Not every student in a classroom has the intelligence and maturity required to stay on the top. A student might be more inclined towards sports or arts than he is in academics. This in tern, becomes unfair towards the teachers as every student cannot do well academically.
Moreover, teachers might encourage students to use unfair means to achieve a high academic performance. In the end, society loses. Students do not learn what they are supposed to and schools send half baked goods into the world. The scandals which have resulted from standardized testing also show why this position is flawed. There have been stories about schools helping students cheat.
Furthermore, this system is unfair to the teachers. There is a clear disparity in the intelligence of seniors and toddlers. If only academics is taken as a measure for paying the teachers, it will create an outrage between the teachers. There is a possibility that a teacher with a PhD is paid less that a teacher who is just a graduate. The efforts taken by an individual to reach to a higher position is disregarded and his efforts are made meaningless. It is also unfair to teachers teaching different subjects. For example, in a country where English is not the first language, the students will suffer in their earlier years and in turn, the teachers will suffer as well. A possible solution for this is there should be a fixed salary and a variable pay based on how well the students perform not only academically but as well as in extra-curricular activities.
In conclusion, though the premise of this position is sound, such a position is detrimental because teachers are not solely responsible for academic performance, students may sabotage teacher and this would also discourage teachers from pursuing the true goals of education.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, well, for example, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2181.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 426.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11971830986 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93703250459 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 675.0 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.2488274459 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1363636364 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3636363636 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86363636364 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247566433949 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0666862921066 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0559934989629 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146979695864 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0381755992286 0.0667264976115 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => 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: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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