I work in an educational setting in Florida (not a teacher).
The awards are based on the teachers’ ACT or SAT scores. Older teachers either didn’t have to take the test, or the scores are long-ago inaccessible.
And really, if you are a 55 year old teacher, who has been teaching successfully for 30+ years, who gives a shit what score you got on a test when you were 17?
It’s a ridiculous program and a stupid way to spend taxpayer money. I am all for TRUE merit based recognition, but I’m not at all surprised that teachers are filing lawsuits.
This BS...you can either teach or you cannot..
Like being an entertainer..
My wife was a first second teacher in Colorado...
In most cases all her students passed..she had special needs mixed in once and a while..
She made learning FUN..
Example..
Watermelon Math
You weigh the watermelon..pounds and ounces
You cut the watermelon..circle..half .quarter
You count the seeds in your piece of watermelon
Ones and tens
Then the class counts all the seeds
There was more but I cannot remember
Then you get to eat you watermelon
Another example.. Physics
Match box track..and cars..boys loved this
They made ramps of different length and height..
and measured how far the cars went
If your teaching High School Math and Science you need to know the subject.