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To: bentway who wrote (200989)	9/11/2012 2:04:03 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542059

The problem with "merit based systems" is their administration. Someone has to decide who is meritorious and who is not. It's not a serious problem if no salary increments are attached or if they are quite small. But if they are reasonably relatively large, then you have created a dependency structure between teachers and the ones who administer merit. It's definitely not healthy. Systems with very few categories and that can be administered largely on widespread consensual grounds post fewer dangers in this regard. But the greater the number of categories and the more the decision making becomes opaque, the greater the dangers. That's why I continue to prefer systems in which salary increases are automatic, merit is awarded outside the salary structure, and the very weakest teachers are let go.