http://www.andykroll.com/education/can-merit-pay-boost-michigans-ailing-schools-or-why-i-think-big-ten-football-could-provide-a-clue-to-teacher-merit-pay Welcome to AndyKroll.com! Here you can find Andy's past published articles, daily commentary and reporting on his blog and an open invitation to discussion and criticism on his writing, the day's events or anything else on your mind. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.andykroll.com/education/can-merit-pay-boost-michigans-ailing-schools-or-why-i-think-big-ten-football-could-provide-a-clue-to-teacher-merit-pay/comment-page-1#comment-1501 Jim Dawson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:48:22 +0000 http://www.andykroll.com/?p=269#comment-1501 Are you an MEA member or what? The whole concept of merit pay is to award pay for merit. Your suggestion that if anyone works hard that everyone should benefit, and then calling that "merit pay" does nothing to get us to the situation where teachers are encouraged to try harder to do a better job of teaching our kids. It sound like the typical union mentality of saying that if you have more money then give it to us, and if one of us is so inclined will put forth a little more effort -but don't count on it, and we certainly won't contractually agree to it. Are you an MEA member or what? The whole concept of merit pay is to award pay for merit. Your suggestion that if anyone works hard that everyone should benefit, and then calling that “merit pay” does nothing to get us to the situation where teachers are encouraged to try harder to do a better job of teaching our kids. It sound like the typical union mentality of saying that if you have more money then give it to us, and if one of us is so inclined will put forth a little more effort -but don’t count on it, and we certainly won’t contractually agree to it.

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