The Free Market dictates that your appropriate pay is merely what it would cost to replace you with like kind and quality. For teachers, which is not that hard of a job, that figure is far lower than what they get now.
FTR my wife and I home school our kids and have done some classes for other’s homeschool kids, all for free. In two hours a day, we produced kids that are all WAAAAAAY above grade level.
If anything, as a profession, they are over paid, especially when you factor in bennies and job security and the over all lousy work product (see Occupy Wall Street for the residue of our education system).
Bump to your comments about home schooling. Amazing what can be accomplished in so little time when you have dedicated students that are truly interested in learning.
That fact you can create, in two hours a day, kids that are way above grade level speaks volumes about that system, doesn’t it?
Stand fast.