Cheating

One of my relatives once said that he considered a teaching career. He would have made an excellent history teacher or math teacher. He even went so far as to look into the requirements for a Master's Degree. Then he heard in the news about teacher's pay being based on the children's grades. He said, "The teacher's pay will adjust to the kid's grade? You want to see huge and I mean HUGE results? Adjust the PARENT'S pay based on the kid's grades! Then you will see radical improvements with the grades! All that's going to happen if the pay is adjusted on the teachers is that there will be more teachers cheating!"

This made sense to me and yes, it does happen. Greg is reading "Freakonomics" and I'm reading it over his shoulder. Greg likes to read at night, lying down in bed and flipping the pages on the iPad. I can curl up next to him and read right along. It's nice and cozy and a good time to share thoughts and interests. (I also like it when Greg reads portions out loud, he has a handsome voice.) It just so happened that the chapter in Freakonomics was about cheating teachers.... to quote.. "A cheating teacher may tell herself that she is helping her students, but the fact is that she would appear far more concerned with helping herself..." And if pay gets involved, a lot more teachers are going to be helping themselves.

Interesting book and I'm looking forward to reading more.