Since teachers aren’t paid hourly, and since most government workers are salaried, it’s hard to compare with manufacturing hourly workers.
Nonetheless, American manufacturing has been seriously injured by cheap labor in China, Thailand, and the serf-ocracies. We allow their anti-free market products into our country so that American goods are non-competitive price-wise.
The only response of companies is to pay the lowest wages possible to compete with overseas workers making slave wages. That drives those wages down.
Are there some teachers not worth their pay? I’m sure there are. I’m sure there are hourly workers not worth their pay.
I know a local high school calculus teacher, though, who is among the best of the best. Former students in college and in engineering firms still call with tough problems.
How many can do what this teacher can do?
Very damn few can compete with brilliant.
Let's examine this above statement.
Socialist school teachers have the lowest SAT scores on campus. They have the lowest GRE scores, too. This is an average.
So...If this calculus teacher is brilliant, then somewhere out there in “The Land of Socialist Entitlement Schooling” is a really **DUMB** teacher, or several less than average teachers, who is leveling out this brilliant man's IQ, SAT, and GRE scores.
By the way, SAT, ACT, and GRE scores correlate well with basic IQ.