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					Originally Posted by DanaC  In your opinion, where did the teacher's union go wrong? I mean in terms of how it represented its members. What do you think they should have done differently? (if it's too long and involved to go into I understand  ) | 
	
 It pays teachers on how long they've been working, not performance.
Then we have the problem with merit pay and teachers just teaching for standardized testing. The only real way to make teaching very efficient, I am talking about what is best for the students, is a subjective pay that  varies by how well the teachers teach that goes beyond standardized testing but that is extremely difficult if not impossible.