Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn.
An ongoing debate at the ministry of education that teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn is being issued currently. Some people believe that this will endow passion for teachers and fill up the class room with enthusiasm. However, the chances that this new regulation will bring negative effect are more apparent. The factors contributed are the limitation of teachers’ influence on students and students’ mental health.
First of all, the factors that affect students’ grade are not only the teachers. The other factors include family matter, poverty, and mental disorder. Students suffering from their personal problems cannot possibly concentrate on their studies. Teachers only desiring more income will force students to raise their marks not considering student’s poor circumstances. Even though teachers acknowledge the fact that students are situated in the surrounding that interferes with their studies, they will soon realise that these factors cannot be controlled or changed by them. Also, if they only focus on students who are excellent and outstanding, students who have mental disorder will be naturally left out who actually need more care and deliberate attention.
Moreover, extremely competitive atmosphere can be formed. Students will have fewer opportunities of community services, counseling, and lessons of morality and ethics which are necessary for growing generation to build good character and become mature. This is because they are filled with confusion and anxiety in the state of puberty and adolescence. This competitive atmosphere will only generate more stress and pressure on students. Also, it will put teachers under endless greed to the point that they can forget their basic role: leading students to brighter future not slowly suffocating them.
In conclusion, if the ministry of education wants a win-win result, they must not introduce this regulation to public. Teachers must center their goals as teaching students the right thing and abandon the thoughts of using students as a way of becoming rich. |