I have similar impressions of teachers. Many of the girls from my public school who were always going to go to college as a fact of being from wealthier familie

I have similar impressions of teachers. Many of the girls from my public school who were always going to go to college as a fact of being from wealthier families, and who possessed some combination of the traits [not hard-working, liked to party, strongly resisted STEM subjects] went to the nearby party-and-education state school and are now elementary school teachers. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence, but on the other hand, it would probably be a severe societal misallocation of resources to send hard-charging people to be elementary school teachers. >I have never met two professionals with so many credentials (MS in Education) and so little sense. John Taylor Gatto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto) is a big name to look into along these lines. He won a bunch of recognition for teaching in New York City, then used that as a platform to loudly quit and agitate against the problems of public education.