Teachers' union: No to performance pay

Robin Duff. Photo / Wanganui Chronicle

The union representing secondary school teachers says performance-related salaries don't work.

One of the country's newest knights - former Auckland Grammar headmaster Sir John Graham - would like to see teachers paid based on their performance.

PPTA president Robin Duff says that system destroys collegiality and undermines trust and confidence.

"It's usually a pretty bankrupt system in the sense that it very often has a finite amount of money going to a very set amount of people," he says.

Mr Duff says schools in Florida are now vigorously getting rid of the scheme because it';s been so damaging.

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