NYC Educator: Daily News Inspired by the Merit Pay Fairy

NYC Educator: Daily News Inspired by the Merit Pay Fairy:

Daily News Inspired by the Merit Pay Fairy

by NYC Educator

Since Newark teachers ratified a contract full of unspecified bonuses for evaluations that don't exist, the Daily News editorial board thinks we ought to do the same thing. You know, we should be paid like professional athletes. This is not a new argument. I've been hearing it for years. Except, of course, that no one, ever, has remotely suggested we be paid on any such scale.

Blogger Jersey Jazzman has been consistently brilliant on this issue, and wrote a fairly definitive history describing its various incarnations and failures. Regrettably, the Daily News editorial board either hasn't heard, or more likely doesn't wish to hear about them. They'd prefer to interview some ex-union chief who no longer believes seniority ought to mean anything for working people.