Let's tie ALL civil servants pay to performance

Let's tie ALL civil servants' pay to performance

With regard to the Florida legislation for teaching and all similar attempts at reform:

When our soldiers and sailors are paid more or less depending on whether we are winning or losing our wars;
when employees of the Department of State get a smaller or larger paycheck depending on the state of our foreign relations;
when law enforcement officers are compensated according to whether crime rates are rising or falling,
and firefighters are paid according to whether a greater or lesser number of homes has caught fire in a given period;
when university professors have their salaries slashed or augmented depending on their students' performance;
and when members of Congress are paid more or less depending on the state of our union at home and abroad-

--then, perhaps, I will listen with more sympathy to those who wish to tie the compensation of K-12 educators to the academic performance of those whom they serve.