"This is the kind of thing that makes anyone in their right mind NOT want to become a police officer." BEING A TEACHER DOESNT SEEM LIKE AN OPTION EITHER!
50 years ago the only opportunities for women were teaching, nursing, secretatial work and a few others. The brightest and the best were available to teach.
Now we have the NEA who has seen to it the there are hordes of "teachers", (most of whom could never measure up to the intellectual capabilites of the past). The most capable women go on to medicine, science, law, and other places where skills are measured and rewards appropriately given.
The public school system of today has been destroyed by the NEA and the law.....Be a hamburger flipper (probably safer) or a teacher...take your pick.....the laws of supply and demand prevail.