They do not take the same raw materials and fabricate a product as factories do. Even the media cannot fathom the school merit pay system. Cincinnati has been trying a teacher merit pay system in its schools. Of course, we know that Cincinnati has other problems than the school system. Its recent riots were the worst in America in decades.
Nobody knows, and that is the point.
Nobody has ever been able to come up with a successful unbiased merit pay system for teachers and god knows, they have tried. As an aside, the Cincinnati teacher s union president who had negotiated the merit pay plan was recently bounced by his union by a woman who campaigned solely on doing away with the plan. Of course, if the merit pay plan falls, the mayor has another idea. He wants the school leadership to go through the vaunted Compstat program just as police commanders do. Under that plan, precinct commanders are responsible for coming up with strategies for driving the number of crimes down.