Oh please. I'll bet your job isn't difficult compared to a marine either. Strawman argument.
Start paying teachers BIG money and maybe you will get the best of the best.
My kids have had every kind of teacher...from FABULOUS to BAD. The worst teachers were those that didn't know their subject. Sometimes the BEST were liberals and it honed my kids debating/thinking skills.
The problem is parents, IMO. Parents MUST keep an ongoing dialogue with their kids from sex to politics and everything in between. TOO many parents send their kids to school and and "check out". Those parents wouldn't be candidates for homeschooling anyway....nor would they ever even consider it.
Teachers already are paid big money and it makes no difference. Performance is negatively correlated with pay, as is obvious from the fact that teachers are paid vastly more than they were 2 generations ago yet educational performance has fallen dramatically.
And no, the problem is not parents, parent have been the same from time immemorial, with the same distribution of brilliant and involved, brilliant and uninterested, loving but uninformed, and uninformed and uninterested. The thing that has changed dramatically is that teaching has become a major politicized body, selected and indoctrinated in educational programs at liberal universities, committed to state supremacy and beholden to unions and bureaucracy etc.
Modern educational theory is uniformly utter nonsense, the worst ideological pseudoscience and claptrap, mere rhetoric and political posing. It is utterly unsurprising that academic also-rans recruited for their willingness to swallow such bilge are utter failures in the classroom.
Occasional good teachers occur because occasional good anythings occur, and because it remains one of the callings, and some seek it out because they have an actual gift for it. They would prosper under my smashed system at least as much as they do under the present socialist fiasco.
The liberals have already blamed everything else under the sun for their overwhelming failure. They never have the slightest willingness to even consider their own patent failure. They are the problem, they need to go. Not be compromized with, not be pandered to, not be placated. Run out of the job on a rail, with prejudice.
You have no idea how livid average Americans are at the utter rot in the schools.