@sickburnbro Small class sizes sound nice, but there's no evidence that they actually improve student achievement. We have known for a long time that teacher quality is the number one factor. Teachers unions won't let anyone measure teacher quality. We have to use proxies like tenure. Longer tenured teachers tend to be better, but it's not because they've improved with experience. It's because lousy teachers are more likely to quit.

Teachers are compensated very well, but the compensation is structured to go mostly towards benefits and retirement (again, thank you unions). Most people don't want to work for decades before seeing decent financial compensation.