Friday, November 02, 2007

Another Thought


I tutor two to three days a week, as do many of my colleagues. If kids do well on the regents, it will be due to our efforts. Our names are not on their transcripts. They are not in our classes. If merit pay is to be distributed by a committee, will those of us who tutor ever see any of it? Can anyone really know how hard I work or for that manner how hard any of my colleagues work? Will we ever be given credit for a job well done? Merit pay will never work.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/tcoast/epaper/2007/11/02/m1a_mcstar_1102.html

This is a story about how Florida teachers who win major awards are not granted merit pay.

BCC said...

Welcome to the real world.
This sounds like what professionals everywhere deal with every day without crying over it.

Some means of making a good impression on one's superiors are objective, some are subjective. Sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. Sometimes you work endless hours on a project for little to no reward or recognition, and then other times you get a windfall for only a fraction of the effort. It's called life. It isn't always fair. Successful professionals deal with it anyway.