Misaligned Systems

After marring my wife who is a 1^st grade teacher at a public school, I have been able to see just how misaligned public schools are.  Teachers are reviewed on how well their students test. However, teachers have no way to make students study or incentivize students to do well. Each year at the end school students take a test and it is the same to them if the make a 100 or don’t get a single question correct because the reward is the same either way, the student moves on to the next grade. However if a teacher can be place on probation if the students do not preform and if the teacher continues to have bad test takers for consecutive years the teacher may lose his or her job all the while the students, the actual one taking the test receive no replications because of their scores. If this were practiced in a manufacturing it would be the same as punishing the production team for the sales department consistently under selling.

I believe that the public education is seriously misaligned in regards to the review system that they currently use. I say review system because test scores is really a review of how well the students perform. Because of the way that the system is currently structured, there is no way for teachers to have a serious way to provide incentive to their students. The students need to be held responsible for the scores that they make. By restructuring public education and giving the power to teacher to hold back students when not passing tests. The new system would help align the incentives of the students and the teachers so that teachers are not overly punished for the failed preparation of students.