Merit pay
Regarding the editorial “Merit pay: Let’s hear the details” (Aug. 5):
Gov. Phil Bryant made a comment about principals paying their favorite teachers more (or something like that). Show me one district where the principal pays teachers on anything other than the approved district pay scale.
Another talking point that has been used is the big bad teacher union. The teacher union may be an issue in other states, but it is not in Mississippi. Can anyone find a teachers’ union that has negotiated a contract in the Mississippi Delta or is organized enough to take a stance against merit pay?
Merit pay is very gray. If you use student growth, teachers with the lowest students have the best opportunity to grow their students. If you use achievement, teachers with the best students will have the best results.
deltaoutsider
Cancer education
Regarding Sid Aust’s letter to the editor, “Conventional medicine not good at prevention” (Aug. 2):
On average, I am going to get cancer? Oh, no! I'd better stop listening to those know-it-all doctors with their fancy degrees and start chewing on tree roots in the mountains with some nut job (who also happens to hold a fancy degree, but not nearly as fancy as those uppity doctors, so he's all right in my book).
Brian Peskin you say? Thanks for bringing this luminary to the attention of the Greenwood-Leflore community.
Your efforts to teach us to further distrust the medical profession will, I’m sure, greatly improve the lives of millions of Americans who are already suffering from diabetes and heart disease, all because of those filthy, evil doctors (or their patients’ addictions to tobacco, candy and fried foods).
mikeman12
City loafing
Regarding the comment in “My Two Cents” Tuesday about “city loafing”:
Yeah, I would like to know what job I can get with the city, save my gas, go for lunch, and break in the city truck 15 to 25 miles out of the city.
BAYOUS
