<p>there are lots of fantastic teachers out there who do a great job and are not in it for the money. not sure that you would necessarily get better teachers if you paid more, but you would attract more people in education programs. there are already about 250 applicants for every opening in my local area…</p>
<p>teachers deserve more–but the best teachers are the ones that teach because they love it…even if you paid 200,000 the unhappy, miserable, grouchy teachers would still act that way…they’d just drive nicer cars!</p>
<p>$125,000 is not sustainable by private or public schools. There are unbelievable teachers out there right now. They are still being restricted by very limited and outdated k-12 program that is way too long and teaches very little with most years before HS practically wasted on busy boring work. My granddaughter who used o love math, recently mentioned that she does not like it any more. Boring, the same over and over. She is going to 5th grade. In most countries, kids are done with arithmetic by 5th grade and move on to algebra, geometry, trig. I feel sorry for our kids and most teachers.</p>