Tardy teachers.
Incentive awards are one way to encourage steady attendance by
students, but will they work for teachers?
In a county school district in Tennessee Tennessee, state, United States
Tennessee (tĕn`əsē', tĕn'əsē`), state in the south-central United States. , the superintendent Superintendent may refer to: - Superintendent (education), an education executive or administrator
- Superintendent (police), a police rank
- Superintendent (United States Air Force), a United States Air Force position
crafted a plan to keep faculty members coming back day after day. For a
perfect attendance record, a teacher could collect a $500 bonus. Those
who miss just one day would reap $400. Anyone with only four black marks
on the year-long attendance log would qualify for $100.
The school board adopted the cash incentive plan because of how
hard it had become to find an adequate number of substitute teachers.
It must have worked because the Rutherford County Rutherford County is the name of two counties in the United States: - Rutherford County, North Carolina
- Rutherford County, Tennessee
district saved
more than $100,000 in substitute pay during the first year it was
offered.
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