Bonuses for teachers at bad schools
Feb 10th, 2009 by ctoop
Under new proposals from Gordon Brown, teachers could be offered as much as £10,000 for working in a underachieving school for 3 years. This comes during a time when banks are being criticised for paying out huge bonuses to employees in the financial world.
Although this new proposal will have the benefit of improving schools and the grades of students, is this not a slight contradiction? How can the PM argue that offering bonuses is bad when he is suggesting the same thing?
I understand the reason for disagreeing with the banking systems bonuses; however this new incentive may encourage people to teach when they actually have no interest in it. Will this not be a similar situation to that of financial companies giving out bonuses to people who are over selling?
Where is the moral standard of people taking pride in their work? Why do people need to be shown appreciation for doing their job by extra incentives?
In this day and age it has become common place, but I believe that people should do their job for the love of it, if they don’t enjoy the job then they shouldn’t simply do it to earn extra money, it seems as though money has taken over the world and people wrongly believe that money makes you happier.
By Charlotte Toop
