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Jen B
I do not know where yo live but a BA/BS with an emergency credential in Ca allows you to sub. Another year of graduate school and pass all the tests and you can be full unrestricted credential. Another year of graduate school and you can be a special needs teacher. That's a masters. Then since we live in a bilingual community we chose to become fluent is Spanish so we can teach all the kids and not just half of them.
We are now up to 6+ years of college, have taken three major tests of knowledge and learned a second language.
JenB, you seem to think that our investment in time, money and energy is for nothing and is not worth the pay one can expect from a MS/MA. Oh, and by the way, many teachers I know have a degree in their teaching specialty such as Math, Science, and English. Many states require this education to teach math, science and English at high school level. Then they go to grad school for their teaching credentials.
I wish people would learn something on the subject that they pretend to be an expert.

If teachers really are so highly educated that makes it even worse! That means unpaid amateurs, often with 'inferior' levels of education, are beating the socks off these so educated professionals on a daily basis.

I'm two classes short of my master's in computer science currently, so there's no awe of graduate school in me.

And if teachers have undergraduate degrees in their subjects, why are there education majors? Your statements don't match what I've encountered in real life. Particularly in math and sciences, the education students I have know are woefully underprepared.

I wonder if the reason girls in general do not like math and science is partly because their generally female teachers, who do not have mathematical aptitude, manage to convince them that girls just aren't good at such things, in order to make themselves feel betteR? On a subconscious level, I mean.