Teachers' salaries should be based on the academic performance of their students.
Teachers are people who impart their knowledge to students, also they will try their best to do researches in their own fields. Thus the duty of a teacher should include the teacher's teaching ability, research ability and if a teacher cares about students. The academic performance of their students can partly show the teacher's ability. However, teachers' salaries should be based on other reasons rather than their students' academic performance. First of all, the academic performance of students cannot fully reflect their teachers abilities. There are many factors that reveal the teacher's abilities, such as if they can make academic products by doing researches. As a teacher's abilities are complex, it is unfair to decide the teacher's salary only by their students' academic performance. Also, many factors from students can have a great effect on their academic performance. It is obviously that there are differences between students. Some students are better while some are not. Some students may try their best to study. However, others may spare their time to play computer games. The teaching ability of a teacher is of great value for a students to be better performed. The key factor is from themselves. Imagining a student does not want to study, though he or she has a good teacher, without hard-working, the student cannot get good grades. In the contrary, if a student is intelligent and spare no effort in studies, he or she will surely perform well even though without a good teacher. Given the reasons above, we can easily conclude that as there are too many factors that will determine the performance of both a student and a teacher, we cannot easily use students' academic performance as the only factor to give teachers salaries. In addition, it is true that the performance of students will reflect some aspects of their teachers. Thus there are both advantages and disadvantages if teachers' salaries depend on the academic performance of students. If salaries are determined by the students' performance. a teacher will surely give useful guidance to students. Also, the teacher will provide students more information to make students more developed. However, the teachers maybe try their best to make their students perform better by every mean. It is possibly that they punish their students if they cannot get good grades. For example, our high school has a policy that students' performances is a factor that determine a teacher's salary. Thus our teacher always punish students when we are late for school or we cannot get good grades. Sometimes our teacher punish students by letting them standing for a whole morning only because the students are late in the morning. It is not good for students' mental health if punishments are present in schools. In summary, if there is relationships between teachers' salaries and students' academic performance, teachers may try best to teach students in order to get better paid. However, the disadvantages of this relation seems unavoidable. Because a teacher's abilities cannot only judged by students' performance, it is not proper to use students performances to determine teachers' salaries.