Public school teacher compensation is totally unrelated to their productivity. Measurement is haphazard and terrible, outcomes are universally ignored, and gene

Public school teacher compensation is totally unrelated to their productivity. Measurement is haphazard and terrible, outcomes are universally ignored, and generally pay depends on the the tax assessment of the surrounding real estate. There are professions where that's a good model, but it seems remarkably unrelated to the dynamics of the teaching market.