I think we could pay more, but only if we could actually get better teachers. So many teachers are bad and not worth even what they get paid (personal experienc

I think we could pay more, but only if we could actually get better teachers. So many teachers are bad and not worth even what they get paid (personal experience from a nominally quite good school district). My concern with paying more before figuring out how to weed out bad ones is that it would just be a waste.