Michigan Votes Forum

Paying based on merit is a good first step in education reform.  Competition between teachers for jobs and pay, as well as competition between schools for students is the only way to fix the education system.

This is another bald attempt to undermine the collective bargaining system to which public school employees in Michigan have been entitled for more than 40 years.  It is bad legislation that should be rejected.

That's right, freespeaker.  The most important thing in education is to protect the teacher.  The "collective pargaining system" has been in place for decades, and look how good it's been for education!  Who cares about getting a good return of our investment of taxpayer's dollars in education?  As long as the teachers have power and security, that's all that matters.  As we all know, when a monopoly corners the market, the lack of competition and choice for the consumer means that the quality of the product just goes up, up up!