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Possible Litigation
Assistant superintendent Jerry Lysik said he’s worried over the legal consequences of instituting a merit pay system. He noted that federal and state laws require that all children be given a free and equal education.
“How can we justify to a parent if their child is assigned to a non-merit teacher? We can’t have all our children going with merit teachers,” noted Lysik.
“Randall (Updike) struck a chord that 1 can respond to and the word was ‘rewards’,” said board member Nancy Reeve. “I believe in rewards. I think they’re important...But I don’t know that merit pay fills that bill.”
A merit pay system would be easy to put in place in a business that involved production, Reeve said. “But when we’re talking about rendering a service, judgement comes into play. She maintained that where services are involved, a merit pay system “is only as good as the person doing the evaluating.”
“If we have a fair evaluation system, our administrators can help us develop and acquire the teachers that we want...I'm for evaluating and for giving the administration the goahead on developing our teachers to be the best ones we can have WITHOUT instituting merit pay,” Reeve said.
She added that she knew of no school systems that use merit pay and would be interested in seeing how such a system works when applied to educators.
Updike said he wanted input from teachers and asked the superintendent for a yes or no answer , as to whether teachers are in favor of or against merit pay.
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