Chapter 2

The first thing that jumped out at me is how teachers get paid, how it all depends on how long you've taught and your years of schooling. Personally, this explains to me a lot in all of my years of schooling. Especially with math, because I've always been a student who constantly struggles with all math and most teachers I've had just try to push me through it, and if I do bad on the test then they just push me through the retake or whatever it takes to make sure I get it done. Not if I actually end up understanding it, which has always been so frustrating to me that I've never actually had a teacher who will really do that. Because I mean why does it really matter to them when there not paid on performance, I'm sure it would all be different if they got paid on their students test scores. In which case I would be bringing down my teachers pay because of my scores with the hope that they would be able to help me understand which will help me in the long run and help them get a higher pay. Now that I think about it you never really seem to find incredibly smart kids want to be teachers, I mean why would they when they know they won't make much and they can out their talents somewhere with higher incentives. Not to say that there aren't smart teachers out there but they are limited. It just makes you wonder how better our education system could be if we changed how we paid teachers and gave them a challenge, especially those incredibly smart people who can pass on their knowledge through their talent while making more and more money from how their students progress.