If you check the highest paid civil servants in state or county are often the education superintendents and other high ranking education officials. Why? Certainly not because of the quality product they produce! It’s because they can scare taxpayers with the cry, “It’s for the children!”.
Don’t get me stated on what university and college presidents are paid!
And they always move on to “greener pastures and sunsets” like cowboys after bankrupting the school systems with building projects.
Even some pastors do the same. Seen that, too.