If you are a teacher who is doing this because you care for, and about children, you will not need an incentive payment.
If you need an incentive payment to encourage you to be educating a group of children, then you should not have been there in the first place.
As for the uproar relating to the slight increase in class/pupil numbers; get real.
In the 1960s I had a class of 55 primary children in a prefab, and I successfully coped with that situation, as was borne out of accolades from the parents of those children, in particular twin eight year old boys who had learning problems.
I know times have changed, but I wonder sometimes, if this means are we really going forward?

Barry H Walker, Mt Maunganui.