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Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
As an educator in this province, what I've found interesting is that the WRA is proposing merit pay for teachers, basically the better a teacher's students do on a standardized test, the more pay the teacher would receive.
This goes against everything teachers have been working on for the past 3-5 years in terms of assessment. Standardized tests were/are coming to an end, if the PCs win this election. Or at least that is the hope.
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Why would any teacher want to work for a school in a low income area with merit-based pay? By definition those students would do poorer on the tests, regardless of the skills of the teacher.
Standardized tests can't be removed soon enough. All they do is tell you what the student got on the test and nothing more. They don't say anything about the educational strengths and weaknesses of the student.