Tie the pay to making sure the students know how to read and write and real history.
I wouldn’t give them two red cents! I work in a community college library and see the “research papers” and essays these public school educated with high school diplomas students leave on tables, the printer or on the computers. Sadly, most cannot write a coherent sentence and from the instructors I hear that our remedial classes are always full and our gen-ed classes are falling off because of the utter crap the public schools are passing. I have to wonder what the hell the teachers are doing all day long because they are not teaching!
Here in Kentucky I watched our public school teachers make total asses out of themselves protesting former Gov. Bevin’s attempts to save their pension. Democrat Gov. Breshear essentially looted that fund for general funding expenses and Bevin was the bad guy. So the teachers started name calling and Bevin jumped into the mud with them rather stupidly and then the teachers started skipping their duties to go protest, calling in sick when obviously they were not sick but playing politics. Then they elect Breashear Jr. to “save them!”
My wife can barely contain herself when her “friends” who are public school teachers start up about how bad they have it in their jobs anymore and wants to tear them a new one. She watched me come in for three years worried about budget cuts to higher education to pay for these cry bags pensions and each week tell her about another co-worker who was let go. We lost a crap load of people who were just flat out fired and the teachers are still wailing and bitching about their pension and they want a $2000 bonus! I have no use for public school teachers anymore, they are not professional and are sure as hell are not doing their jobs.