> Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US teachers been adequately pai

> Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US teachers been adequately paid, so they knew to some extent what they were getting into. Indeed, but the economy is considerably worse now than it was and how observant one is does not seem to be determined by nurture. The teachers I had in elementary school in central NJ in the 1990s could all afford to lead pretty normal middle class lifestyles. I wouldn't say that they were thriving, but they certainly weren't just barely making ends meet. I wouldn't think less of a classmate of mine from that time if they went into teaching as a profession thinking it would now provide what it provided then.