Should schools award teacher bonuses based on students' academic progress?

Schools can't be set up like a business. They deal with children. Children don't run businesses nor are they all
going to learn in the same way at the same child. Telling a child he or she has failed and must go back strikes me as pretty cold hearted. Schools don't deal with automatons. They deal with handicapped children, children from broken homes, children who can't speak English, children with reading problems
If you can find a one size fits all solution to all this, I am sure educators would be grateful.

Could yo be clearer-what attitudes of American educators are"feeding the problem"?

I am a teacher. I believe that the idea of teacher bonuses is ridiculous. Children aren't cars. You can't force them into prizewinning vehicles. Every class of students is different. Many students now come to school with little ability to read English. Many students don't perform well because of home issues .
The ability to put the right mark in the right circle has never been a sign of an educated person. If I was a young teacher supporting a family I would force my students to work and work on test taking. I might even be mote interested in test results than in my students. I think rewarding teachers for teaching test taking skills is in no way going to help students
in the long run. It might even make teachers unwilling to deal with struggling students.I think it might be a good idea to consult educators who have been named Teacher of zThe year. They know what iti s to teach. I am not sure congress does.

When teachers are losing upwards of 25/30/40% or more on the classroom time, it's grossly UNFAIR to tie compensation to performance. Especially when teachers aren't all given methods by which they can better control their classrooms.

How can you say, reasonably, that "you'll get a bonus for how well your students do" when they don't have the ability to impact the kids' learning? If you have a classroom that's losing a great deal of productive learning time because of lack of discipline, and don't give teachers an effective way of handling it, then you're unfairly penalizing the teachers for not "achieving."

You can't assume that all teachers learn how to manage their kids effectively either. Classroom disruption is a serious problem in our schools and one of the primary reasons teachers leave the profession.