Teachers in the US are extremely well paid once you consider their obscenely good retirement benefits, insurance, and time off each year. Most teachers don't ha

Teachers in the US are extremely well paid once you consider their obscenely good retirement benefits, insurance, and time off each year. Most teachers don't have to pay into social security because they get their own separate plan. It is extremely expensive to hire a teacher in America and I don't think spending even more money is going to change that. Even theoretically, what would paying them more accomplish? Would they be displaced by experts in the field who decide to retire? Would they work harder because they're over double the median per capita income in the US? Are we going to pay them the same amount but just hire more teachers?