Teachers are, to the best of my knowledge, universally paid salary, not hourly. The other reasons this hasn't changed are a) This is just "how things are". It

Teachers are, to the best of my knowledge, universally paid salary, not hourly. The other reasons this hasn't changed are a) This is just "how things are". It's more or less considered the "normal" way of doing education. b) Changing it would require increasing education budgets by a fairly significant amount, and since those are all local, and based on local property taxes, they are much more likely to have a bunch of entitled rich people coming in to say "I shouldn't have to pay any taxes to support those damn kids" and voting for budget cuts. (Because the people who aren't rich don't have the time and energy to be coming in to these meetings on a regular basis.)