Should teachers be paid based on student performance?

Should teachers be paid based on student performance?

                There’s a verse that says, “Money is the root of all evil”, which fits perfectly for this blog,  if districts begin to compensate teachers for producing better test scores and grades, I think students will begin to look like dollar signs instead of individuals.  Some teachers would lose their initial desire and passion that led them to their career in the first place to earn a couple extra thousand dollars.  In an economy where financial stress is being felt by all people of different socio-economic status’ I think some educators would be yearning for that compensation that they would stop at nothing to make it possible.  Teachers who would want to earn that extra money without actually being an effective teacher would probably find other ways in receiving cash.  Some would probably approach the school secretary and request that higher level thinking and more advanced students be placed in his/her class.  Others might even alter test scores like a school district in Atlanta, Georgia did a few years ago.