If you had been in the trenches of the public school system teaching for the past 25 years and the powers to be decided to pay a teacher fresh out of college the same as you, YOU WOULD BE PISSED OFF! Now think about it!
No, I'd want the best and the brightest to be among my colleagues and peers. That gives my profession credibility and viability. That's why the esteem of the teachers is so low; they're hiring only those willing to be exploited by those already in the profession. You like to think that those coming out of the schools are even better qualified and equipped to do the jobs -- and not that they're still producing the same kind of teachers they were 25 years ago -- as though whole worlds of new information haven't made today's teachers, or doctors, the state of the art. Your whole mentality is wrong.