My point is not the bad teachers. They just serve as a litmus test. My point is that the incentives are wrong, and bad teachers react the most to that. Good

My point is not the bad teachers. They just serve as a litmus test. My point is that the incentives are wrong, and bad teachers react the most to that. Good teachers care enough about the students to sacrifice their own livelihood for the good of the student. At least, to a degree. Sometimes that means buying school supplies from their own pocketbook, and other times that means extra time spent on students who have different needs than the rest of the class, above or below. And I'm not calling all the rest of the teachers 'bad'. The ones that do their job to their best of their ability, but don't sacrifice, are not bad. They're largely being ignore here. It's only the teachers that do the bare minimum and only think as far as making teaching easier for themselves... Those are the bad ones. And the incentives currently favor them.