Salaries are less of a problem than pensions and health bennies.
Teachers, no matter how good, have become unaffordable.
Baby Boomer teachers and retirees are the ones living the good life. Generations after don’t have it that good. Of course boomers singlehandedly ruined this country in all sectors of society. A disastrous group of people!!!
I’m not so quick to put it on the teachers. I have a longtime friend who is a teacher at MPS. The bloated bureaucracy around the teachers is more of the issue.
teachers in my day were in it because to a Catholic school student it was considered a "vocation"...something you devote your life and being a good person...
now, its just a govt job..period...
I can count on one hand the number of people who I consider really loved their jobs, loved the kids, and never wanted to quit...actually, its probably only one person, sadly not my own sister, who skedaddled as soon as she could...