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Undoubtedly, money can make people stimulated to work hard. Some people argue that a teacher’s earnings should be based on his or her students’ performance. They may think that it can make teacher teach their students harder. However, I do not agree with the opinion above. This is because the quality of the teacher’s lectures can be lower and make the students feel stressful. First of all, the quality of a teacher’s lectures can be degraded. When the teacher’s earnings is changed depending on the students’ performance, the teacher would try to improve their students’ grades. It can make teachers give their students several hints regarding to the exams and train them to solve the questions. Thus, the quality of the class can be lower. For instance, I read an article that a student criticized that teachers’ teaching quality was getting lower. He said that the teachers provided students with valuable materials and exciting activities to help students understand during the class before, but now, they just gave them clues about tests and a lot of questions to solve. The article writer pointed out that the school’s decision to give teachers salary depending on the students’ achievement as a main reason of this situation. Second, it can make students feel stressed. a teacher’s earnings based on his or her students’ performance can make the teacher keep compelling their students to study hard to get good grades. Thus, the students can be under heavy stress to study. For example, I was not interested in studying history because it did not have a relationship with my dream job and my history teacher understood my situation and did not push me to study history. However, after my school decided to provide teachers’ salary depending on their students’ achievement, the history teacher forced me to study history hard continuously. I had to study history more even though I did not want to. Thus, it gave me a lot of stress. To sum up, I believe that a teacher’s earnings should not be based on their students’ achievement. This is because it can make the quality of teachers’ lecture lower and students feel stressed. |