You know what the problem is? The schools are in such back shape they hire anyone they can get. No one wants to do this job. This man would make more money working as a garbage collector in NY than teaching school.
Would you go into the mess that is today’s public schools?
At least four generations of leftist lies and propaganda pawned off as "education" on college students (especially teaching majors) at colleges, along with HS textbooks spewing the same immoral leftist garbage.
I have 2 very young grandchildren in pre-K and 3rd grade. Parents are very involved - thankfully.
I don’t have a solution to the problem you have raised. Seems to me that teachers have good hours and benefits. Maybe pay College professors less and grade school teachers more.
It's getting pretty miserable. I've been in LAUSD for 13 years now, and every year I am more firmly determined that the minute I turn 55 and can collect the tiniest of pensions, I'm going to bolt. I only hope I can hang in there for 3 more years without getting hurt, in trouble, or having a stroke.
Found this chart of public school salaries - by State. It’s to 2013 - but the salaries seem quite good.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_211.60.asp