It's a good idea in theory and has been talked about for quite a while now, but as Undercover thought, the implication would be impossible and just end up being damaging.
Teachers have to fight too much right now against so many forces, including, most often, terrible parents. Parents who don't believe their recommendations, parents who think the teacher is picking on poor Billy or Suzy, parents who don't parent and the kid shows up hungry, poorly clothed, and angry.
While this will begin focusing on the teacher, and have some good points to it, it will end up focusing on the students and their progress, and teachers will get unfairly penalized for bad students and bad situations.
I would also agree with those that say it's another unfair expectation for teachers to put up with that we don't put on other professionals. If we really want to go down this road, and teachers really do have one of the more important jobs out there, than we need to treat them as such and pay them as such. Pay them like teachers in Norway, then you can expect all these things from them.
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