Worst teachers should be sacked, says MP In a report, they said that staff should be rewarded for "adding the greatest value" to pupils" results. Speaking after the publication of the report on Tuesday, Mr Stuart said: "We need to reward the best and we also need to identify those in whose classes children don't learn and ensure that they are supported to improve or removed from the profession." He asked why "someone who is making limited progress in their classroom in the leafy suburbs should be paid as much as an inspirational teacher in the toughest parts of the inner-city who is making a huge difference to kids so easily left behind." "It doesn't make sense," he told BBC Radio 4"s Today programme. In any other walk of life, where there is a huge difference in contribution between professionals we would seek to ensure that you had a reward system that reinforces success and encourages people to improve. But Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the NUT, said it was impossible to "disentangle" the performance of one teacher from another. He said any performance-related pay system would depend on the amount of progress teachers make with individual pupils. "That's determined by what the teacher the year before says the achievement of their child was, so if that teacher over-claims, then they are reducing your potential pay," he said.