ACT's David Seymour - i like his style.

[Bjauck]

Paying teachers based on performance rather than collective lowest common denominator seems like a good idea to me

If you have excellent teachers but in an area of increasing poverty, increasing overcrowding and/or substandard housing and poor quality equipment, the chances are their performance will suffer. If some teachers increasingly have students who are inadequately nourished and clothed and the students continually fall ill, then some teachers have a deteriorating environment in which they try to teach