I think the real problem isn't the teachers. It's the administrators. The schools are bloated at the top.
Take the school I went to growing up. It was a small town in Upstate New York with about 100 kids in each grade.
We had three principals: Elementary, Jr. High and High School. No assistant principals. Two secretaries.
A lot of the kids went on to colleges. The year I graduated (1982) we had one of the highest percentages of Regents scholars in the area.
Now, the same school has less kids. But there are six principals (Principals, Assistant Principals), two business managers and at least a half dozen secretaries. Any one of whom probably makes more than all three principals combined made when I was a student there.
And the kids, instead of going to college, are flunking out. The school is in the news as one of the worst in the area. Despite taxes having gone up every year.
