As a Coloradan student, I've discussed Amendment 66 with some teachers, and there are a lot more underlying effects of it that harm the system. Take pay-for-performance for example. What if the teacher teaches a subject where the student inherently lacks motivation? Another less obvious issue is that if too many teachers are reported to perform well, they get audited whether or not the performance review is accurate. In such a scenario, you're job and salary is safer if you perform average and not get audited at all rather than perform excellent and risk suspicion and auditing.
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As a Coloradan student, I've discussed Amendment 66 with some teachers, and there are a lot more underlying effects of it that harm the system. Take pay-for-performance for example. What if the teacher teaches a subject where the student inherently lacks motivation? Another less obvious issue is that if too many teachers are reported to perform well, they get audited whether or not the performance review is accurate. In such a scenario, you're job and salary is safer if you perform average and not get audited at all rather than perform excellent and risk suspicion and auditing.