I was fortunate enough to grow up in a good school district, in an area without many private schools or much income inequality, so I never had a personal proble

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a good school district, in an area without many private schools or much income inequality, so I never had a personal problem with public schools. > Turns out, there isn't a whole lot a teacher can do in the face of an overwhelming emphasis on testing and meeting state standards... Pretty much. A friend of mine is currently trying to figure out whether he values education enough to put up with hostile, indifferent students and a culture of bullshit testing and teacher evaluation in a bad (but not inner-city bad) school district. He's a smart guy who could make the same money doing something else with way less effort and frustration, but he's also more of an idealist than I. When teachers are more respected and better paid than mobile app developers, we will have a better education system. I'm not holding my breath.