The Columbia, Mo. Board of Education's candidates discussed merit pay for teachers.
Candidates were responding to a question posed by Yancy Williams at a forum hosted by the Columbia Pachyderm Club at Jack’s Gourmet Restaurant.
How appropriate that candidates to lead a lumbering elephant met with the Pachyderm Club.
In business settings, employees who work harder are rewarded with higher pay, Williams noted.
Yes and no. If I were the hardest worker in a line that assembles slide rules, I wouldn't get rewarded that much more (if any) because nobody would want what I produce.
Former Hickman teacher Michelle Gadbois said teachers have told her, "If you pay on merit, let me pick my students."
In a better world, your students and their parents would pick you and you would be rewarded for that.