Not really surprising to anyone really is it? I mean what other profession asks you to: 1. Manage a 25+ children 2. Be responsible for their learning/growth 3.

Not really surprising to anyone really is it? I mean what other profession asks you to: 1. Manage a 25+ children 2. Be responsible for their learning/growth 3. Expected to be part-time law enforcement 4. Expected to be part-time psychologist 5. In some districts, carry weapons and tasked with keeping the peace 6. Get paid way below what skillset that requires 7. Get targeted by parents, politicians for under performing children when parents are not involved and politicians constantly cut funding 8. Have to go on strike just to get cost of living adjustments 9. Funding is so poor, that a lot of teachers have to reach into their own pockets to cover up the difference (voluntary, but still) 10. And after all that, to not be compensated financially is just pouring salt on the wound. If you want people to pick teaching as a career path, we need a complete shift in the culture of America. As it stands, teachers get zero respect in our culture. The coach is put on a pedestal, the match teach - good luck. He is lucky if the only acknowledgement he receives are insults In other countries, teachers are respected by parents and students. They are paid well. They are elevated to a higher station in society. In America they are put down, vilified and threatened.