Compensating teachers
published: Wednesday | April 7, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

IN RESPONSE to 'Performance pay pilot begins for Teachers...' (March 31, 2004), I pose the following: What is/are the incentive(s) for the students to learn?

Teachers can do all they can to teach, but if you have unwilling learners, their efforts will be futile. Do the teachers then not get full compensation?

Too many people pass the burden of education on to the schools and teachers in the classroom, without realising that the 'first school' is home, and the 'first teachers' are parents.

Will the 'first teachers' also receive performance-based compensation?

I am, etc.,

JOHN DEAN

itubij@msn.com

St. Louis, Missouri

Via Go-Jamaica