My data point sure isn't dispositive, but it heads off the "none of you know what teachers jobs are really like!" noize. As a rule almost all my friends have a

My data point sure isn't dispositive, but it heads off the "none of you know what teachers jobs are really like!" noize. As a rule almost all my friends have a parent who was a teacher or worked as teachers themselves. shortening every year with professional development requirements (not saying those are bad I'll say they are no good. They are, again, credentialism: put up some hurdles for people to jump over, and then say that they should get paid more because they jumped over some hurdles.