Boarding Round Pay System

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Introduction
Education is and will always be one of the most important roles in growing and evolving young minds. Education teaches students to think about a problem in different ways and gives them the knowledge to be able to move onto college and/or work with the skills they will need. Teachers are the key factor to giving students an adequate education that will prepare them for future endeavors. Teachers are seen as mentors and role models for students. Besides parents, teachers play a leading role in the daily lives of students. In most cases, teachers spend more time a day with students than do parents. Besides just classroom instruction, teachers spend hours outside of the classroom contributing to events on campus, sporting activities,
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At this point teachers were not given money, only a room and a board to help them teach. There was a concept called the "boarding round" pay system, that gave people a strong inventive to become teachers because it allowed them to maintain upright relationships with members of the community and be seen as a highly moral character. By the early 1900s, teaching and schooling became more uniform in the sense that teachers were required to have a higher education level than before. The boarding round system was replaced by a position-based salary. Around this same time it was established that elementary school teachers should be paid less than higher level teachers because they did not need as much education. Also, men were paid more than women and minority teachers. Eventually, the standard changed and it was said that all teachers should have the same amount of education and should not be discriminated based race or gender. In 1990, the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS), rewarded schools that showed improvement but proving what was basically a bonus for all teachers. This gave them an incentive to maintain their hard work. In modern day, education teachers are underpaid and over worked. …show more content…
When those who quit teaching were asked for what reason, the majority recorded that they were not paid enough and felt under appreciated. It was since stated that teacher turn over rates were twice as high in the poorest-paying school districts. Teachers feel really strongly about this issue. Teachers in Arizona are threatening to strike if they do not get a pay raise soon. One teacher from Arizona said that on his first day of teaching, the art teacher quit because she was not paid enough. He said when this happened, those students were put into his class because they had no where else to go. Karveils is a music teacher, who had over forty students in a classroom with seven pianos. The teacher basically said that there was no way he could teach this many children at once and get his point across. Most lawmakers have already said that there will not be a tax increases for education. Karvelis said that Arizona is missing over a billion dollars in their education fund, and it is not fair. (Arizona,