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Show 125 teachers deserve much less pay, and at the higher salaries while other same time claim that the amount spent public education is sufficient. mer; t pay scheme wi 11 resul tin While it is assumed that a who argue for merit pay and against a dilemma. With all were that the only never some budgetary increases would exist because the merit pay be worth Such proponents issue solving salary issues.22 can be hidden and which a assume higher salaries. exists for the merit pay argument to be which the real be the less able teachers gone, could of the teachers will possibility good a to occur, those the system afford to pay the others what they deserve? dilemma may on "weedi ng out" of the poorer teachers, it should be realized that if such faced with teachers deserve can one Thus, under delay in cause Concerning accountability, the rhetoric calls for teachers be responsible for the progress of students. that educational progress can be a product. one The Deseret News is an or should be involved in example of party to which the concept of accountability appeals. editorial, the who believes immediately measured, accountability sounds reasonable, since to him, education is producing To to involved an In News stated that if more money were to be a 1975 appropriated 22There have been several works done and statements published One concerning attitudes in Utah regarding merit pay of teachers. of teachers is C. Kay Allen, "An Analysis of Teacher Attitudes For Toward Merit Rating,1I (M.S. thesis, University of Utah, 1957). see teachers of a blistering attack on the non-merit system paying Ernest Wilkinson, IIMotivating Forces Which are Lacking in the Pro fession of Teaching: A Summary Comparison of Motivating Forces, Including Monetary Compensation, in the Teaching and Legal Profes""', s ions ,' Summer commencement speech given by N'ilkinson of Brigham Young University, 22 August 1958. as President |