Teacher Pay Reform Essay

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Reform for Teacher Pay in North Carolina

Elementary school teachers play a more important role then what society gives them credit for. They are responsible for nurturing children’s minds seven hours a day, five days a week not to mention the “behind the scenes” care they give. Society expects teachers to put forth significant amounts of effort in teaching and nurturing elementary school children. However, with such an important task one would expect elementary school teachers to be paid more. That doesn’t seem to be the case when discussing the salaries of elementary school teachers. To keep effective, quality, and passionate teachers in the school system something must be done to pay teachers a higher salary.
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Instead an official in the school systems who doesn’t work at the school should review the teacher’s interactions, work ethic, and overall effort he or she puts into teaching the class. Like the court systems in the United States it can be obvious when someone is guilty or not guilty. Just like it’s obvious when teachers put forth the effort to teach their classes and nurture their student’s minds. Senator John Geodde in his opening debate stated,” Senators, we have an educator pay scale that’s built in the 19th century it doesn’t work, and doesn’t recognize excellence. ( NC Senate Plan)” In other states however people argue to decrease pay scales. For example, in Melbourne the school commission argues,” since teacher’s salaries account for 85 percent of the schools budget the best way to save money was to cut back on teachers. (Bruce) Reform for teacher pay and the entire system is necessary to keep quality teachers in our schools. Without quality teachers, our students and school systems will suffer. A suffering school system will not produce the high performing students expected. To keep the school system performing well, teachers need to be paid more and differently. Also, teachers need to have assay in the decision-making process. This will lead to quality teachers and a quality education

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