Come to Pennsylvania and teach. The teachers here go on strike if we even suggest that they pay for part of their health-care, whether through paying for insurance or paying a $10 copay to see a doctor. The NEA is bleeding rural Pennsylvania dry with their salary&benefit demands and their constant pushing for new buildings. Our schools are paid for on the backs of property owners, and the taxes are driving people out of their homes and out of the state.
It is illegal in Kansas for teachers to strike.
I had a professor tell me to go to PA because with my area of specialization I could make a lot more than here in SC. I like PA, I think it is a beautiful state and everyone I have ever met from there has been wonderful. However, I was taught as a child that unions were evil and I am NOT going to go to work in an area where I have to join one in order to have a job. The unions have destroyed more aspects of our country than just the education field.