My wife is a college prep (public charter) high school math and physics teacher. She noted recently, that she could make as much money working at a local depar

My wife is a college prep (public charter) high school math and physics teacher. She noted recently, that she could make as much money working at a local department store, or fast food joint, as she does at the school. And when she'd return home, she could put the other work out of her mind. She works about 14 hour days during the week, and 12 hours per day on weekends. Hourly equivalent is about 1/2 the department stores. She told me about the new safety policy the police advise to use in the event of a shooter, after the Oxford MI incident (about an hour from us). The idea is to barricade the door, get anything you can use as a weapon, and defend the kids. Alternatively, you can break out a window and run away. Of course, they won't let the teachers open carry weapons, which, honestly, would turn the soft targets into very hard ones. Aside from that obvious solution, the problem is, what do you do if you have a kid who doesn't want to leave for any reason? This literally becomes a trolley problem, decide whose life is more important. Should she stay with the reluctant child, or should she save her own life and as many of the others as she can? And I don't know if I mentioned it, but the pay really really sucks. Add to this, parents who don't work with the teachers to help their kids. Often major communication problems with parents who don't speak english. Parents who only sometimes take their kids to school. Kids who just don't care enough to do any work, and then come begging at the end of every quarter/semester for "extra credit", which they are ineligible for, given that they have not completed a majority of their work. Often any work at all. I hear about this. Every day. It is burning her out. But more than that. I see what these schools are producing, see the attempts not to make the kids unhappy by giving them a 50% score for doing no work, not even showing up to class, or tests. Letting them retake tests to improve grades. All these little things we do to coddle, and protect people from the consequences of their own decisions. And I think what sort of adults we are unleashing. Which explains much of what we see in society now.