Turn Students Into Investments : Planet Money What if we paid teachers based on the future income their students make?

Turn Students Into Investments

Ryan Christianson has an idea about how to determine teacher's salaries that he admits is "kind of crazy." He writes:

What if teachers were paid based on the future income their students make. For example, student A grows up to make 100k a year. We look at the records and find the 20 teachers that taught student A and compensate them based on that. Compensation could be based on number of months spent with student.

That way the students would turn into "investments" for the teachers.