Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most co

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Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

The issue of making teachers’ salaries commensurate to the academic performance of their students is usually highly debated. Consequently, it is a nuanced issue that depends on what we as a society think the goal of the teacher should be. It ranges from expecting the teacher to only teach students how to pass exams, to allowing them to teach personal development skills so the student can have a better opportunity of becoming a well-rounded person. On balance, I tend to agree with the latter.

If we make the salaries dependent on the results of academic performance, then teachers will be incentivized to only teach how to be successful at taking exams. This will attenuate the importance of students’ ability to develop their critical and analytical thinking skills. During my high school years, we had an important state exam that we had to take and pass at the end of the year to move on to the next grade. The second half of the school year was spent on making the students understand how to pass the exam, as opposed to understand the content of it. Ultimately, this led to the majority of the students succeeding, but arguably that time could’ve been spent teaching students other fundamental skills.

Secondly, this new incentive will take away the responsibility of the parents to ensure their children are on top of their work. The new metric will dictate that if students are not passing, it’s due to the teachers lack of skill. This is already happening to an extent based on teacher’s testimonials. Parents decide to confront the teacher, effectively blaming them for the lack of success in the student’s report card. The teacher may argue that the student is the only one failing the class, nonetheless, this metric will exemplify that the teacher’s job is not good enough. As opposed to assigning the proper responsibility where it belongs: to the parents and the student.

Lastly, our education system is underfunded and that includes teacher salaries. Most of them use their own money to underwrite the classroom tools and decorations. Not only do they not get paid enough, we ask them to provide a good classroom environment, and now we seek to dangle their salaries on a complex metric. As we are to begin a new school year, I see many of my close friends who happen to be public school teachers share their amazon list of school supplies, in the hope that a good samaritan will help out with the expenses. If we want academic performance to improve, we should begin by appropriating the right amount of money for school funding, instead of meddling with the teachers’ salaries.

In conclusion, teachers’ salaries should not be based on academic performance. This will have unintended consequences that will stray focus away from making sure students develop their own personal growth to ensuring they know how to pass a test. As well as making them fully responsible for the success of the student instead of the parents or the student himself. Furthermore, teachers usually spend their own salary on tools to improve the classroom due to the lack of funding provided. So, aside from the difficult economic situation the teacher is placed, less resources would be provided from the teacher.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, furthermore, if, lastly, may, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion, as well as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2730.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01838235294 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93554608137 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479779411765 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 828.9 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5376664351 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.2 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.76 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21628858983 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0747967963088 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543434179314 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139719222277 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412022492329 0.0667264976115 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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