this must be an error. tories can't want people with stronger numeracy. they might read one of their budgets...

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/03/05/give_math_teachers_incentive_pay_ontario_conservatives_say.html

in all seriousness, it makes no sense at all to think that you can increase test scores by providing incentives to teachers.

see, teachers don't write tests.

students write tests.

increasing test scores consequently has nothing to do with teachers and everything to do with students.

it follows that if you want to provide incentives to anybody and have it work, there should be incentives for students.

but incentive systems don't work anyways, so it doesn't matter.

i mean, honestly, though - there somehow exist these people that think that the "quality" of teachers somehow affects tests scores. you know what's behind this? it's that stupid michelle pfeiffer movie.

the one where the rich white woman goes to the slums and magically makes the brown kids care more.

see, and that's the absurdity - the idea that students are lazy and simply need to be managed better.

...rather than the truth, which is that students are stupid because their parents raised them on television and junk food....

...and the reality that nothing's going to change them except themselves.

better idea? fire the teachers, hire babysitters and make the kids figure it out on their own.