Taxpayer,
I taught for years, in both very dangerous and very prestigious public schools. Teaching is the only job I know of in which the people are considered bigger successes the less of it they do. Successful Doctors or Lawyers are admired and promoted for being the best and they work long hours at every level. Weak teachers become Educators and get out of the classroom. If they stay in front of students then after a few years they stop writing lesson plans and often coast. Teachers with credentials based on bogus “teacher’s ed” courses, watered down Sociology if you can picture that, are paid over $100,000/yr to work less than 180 days/yr for less than 3 hrs/day.