A black belt in teaching

So, okay. If you work in the field of education, you may have your biases about the way you are paid. I know I do. And I noticed this past week that everyone and their dog has to continue getting credits after college in order to keep getting paid. It's kind of nutty, but I guess you want your employees to have the most up-to-date information to work with.

So anyway, those people who are taking all these classes decide that since they are doing it anyway, they might as well get their masters out of the deal. That way, they get more money on the pay scale for having it.

Well, I personally don't think that a person should have to shell out all this money out of their pockets to continue their education so they can make more. Does it really even out? Who knows?

That's why, my friends, I thought of the system that would seem to work.

You know how we all know that one person who has their black belt in Karate, but yet we probably have no idea what that means other than it means that they are awesome in karate. Well, that's how I think the education system should pay their employees. I think there should an education belt system. Wouldn't it be fun to say that you were a black belt teacher? Come on. That way people would know that you were a good teacher and not just because you had been there since the dawn of time. Only this would be a moving scale. Just because you were a black belt doesn't mean that you get to stay there, you have to continually prove that you deserve to stay there: good lessons, good student relations, good parent relations, good staff relations, good standardized test scores...etc.

That was my brilliant idea. Of course, like all the ideas I have, it seems less brilliant once I wrote it down and even writing about it made me get bored with trying to follow through.

Have a swell day.