Teachers used to be basically respected as well.
Now, when the going gets tough and as long as they are getting paid, they are using every excuse in the book not to go back to work. While I largely blame the unions, the rank and file are exactly fighting back. Kids come a distant second.
Thank God the doctors, nurses, police, firefighters, grocery store workers and all essential workers who worked through the worst of COVID weren’t in the teacher’s union!
Teachers should be essential, but I guess it is easier sitting at home. They are all in the ‘rubber room’.
Now people become teachers for the same reason become journalists, “To Change the World”