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Simple. If I, as a tax payer, am paying that salary, I want to know whether the money is well spent. After all, the government is confiscating my earned money against my will. I don't think I'm getting value for my money out of the public education system so I don't want to keep giving more money to it. Now, don't get me wrong. I want teachers to make more money. But I don't think giving more money to the education bureaucracy is going to make that happen; it'll just fund more bureaucracy.

On the other hand, shareholders pay the CEO's salary. Shareholders willingly take their own money and buy shares in a company. If they don't like the way the company's run, including the pay packages for executives and officers, investors can take their money elsewhere. It happens all the time.

After all, the government is confiscating my earned money against my will. I don't think I'm getting value for my money out of the public education system so I don't want to keep giving more money to it.

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If you seriously object, an armed sheriff will sell you home and/or business at auction. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip)

And,,,,It is more than just not getting good performance. Government schools WILL establish the worldview of some ( with religious content and consequences) while undermining the most cherished family traditions of others ( with religious consequences)

What an abomination!