No this isn't the problem. There is huge demand for skilled teachers as in teachers that are extremely good at their job. Huge demand. There's also too little s

No this isn't the problem. There is huge demand for skilled teachers as in teachers that are extremely good at their job. Huge demand. There's also too little supply. It Could be a lucrative career if the system were setup better. Think about it. When you were in school how many good teachers were there? Very very very few. Now think further... Any school you went to.. did you have the opportunity to choose the school based on how good the teachers are? And therein lies the mismatch. Top schools aren't associated with good teachers. It's basically a crap shoot... you select the school based off of some prestige factor that's independent of teacher skill. Then within the school you have limited selection based off of informal "ratemyprofessor.com" reviews. There needs to be official records and ways to measure teacher skill and hiring must be made off of these records. This will increase teacher pay. Until then teachers will be paid shit. Imagine a university that did specifically this. You'd have a school where every teacher was freaking phenomenal. I, personally, went to a uni with a pretty high prestige factor on the west coast of the US and of course, ironically, the higher the prestige the shittier the teachers. I would drop all of that to attend the aforementioned hypothetical school. And of course to stay in line with the topic because this hypothetical school would be more in demand the school would pay more. Teachers all over the industry would being to raise their own skill level and hiring would only be based on actual really good teachers rather then anybody who can speak English.