> While pay can vary greatly by location, according to the most recent statistics from PayScale, a crowd-sourced database, the median salary for an elementary s

> While pay can vary greatly by location, according to the most recent statistics from PayScale, a crowd-sourced database, the median salary for an elementary school teacher is $43,737. And that is the end of the story. Most men HAVE to provide for the family. A reasonably intelligent man can make much much more money in another field. So he would be silly to be a teacher for anything other than raw passion. For a job there are many thousands of openings, I am not sure you are going to fill them all with passion... So what do we do, double the pay of teachers? Most school districts walk a very fine budget line. Some like Chicago are a mess. Some in smaller towns have to pick which of the three leaky roofs in the district they can afford to repair that year. So not seeing any reasonable path out of this.