Comments on: Study: New York City teacher pay initiative did not improve student achievement http://www.caroljcarter.com/study-new-york-city-teacher-pay-initiative-did-not-improve-student-achievement/ Education news and advice by leading expert in student success and transition. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:04:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: I am a JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL and I DON’T think merit pay is right… http://www.caroljcarter.com/study-new-york-city-teacher-pay-initiative-did-not-improve-student-achievement/#comment-1131 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:01:52 +0000 http://caroljcarter.com/?p=1377#comment-1131 Just because a student gets a bad score/grade it’s not the teachers fault it’s the student who got the bad score/grade’s fault. If I get a bad score/grade i don’t blame the teacher I blame myself. If students get low scores/grades it shouldn’t be up to the teacher to fix it. I think it’s wrong that teachers can be fired for the scores/grades their students get.

PARENTS are more responsible for their kids’ grades/scores THAN TEACHER are. At home some parents don’t care about scores/grades so then the kid doesn’t care. Then they get bad scores and the teacher is the one blamed not the student or parent.

Here are many questions I have for whoever came up with this…

What happens to teachers that have all special needs students? Or what happens if the student is just a bad test taker? What if the student doesn’t care? What happens when a group of students don’t like a certain teacher and decide to get bad grades to get the teacher fired?
These are just a few questions that I have alone…
I know there are many more I just hope that government STOPS merit pay all together it’s NOT RIGHT OR FAIR TO OUR HARD WORKING TEACHERS!

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