Good teachers like my late wife did not stop working after leaving her classroom. She worked a couple of hours every night and a lot on the weekends. Taxpayers got their money worth from her and there are lots of devoted teachers like her.
Teachers worked 6 hours per day and Rahm’s unilateral extension of the workday by an hour is a 16.7% increase in the work day. He provoked this strike for his own political reasons.
Teachers get great health benefits but their pensions are not particularly generous.
Anyone who has to deal with the Chicago pupils (75% of Blacks out of wedlock, gang infestation, worshippers of Evil) and/or their insane parents gets burned out VERY fast. I would not be able to do their job for 150Gs a year.
My sister and BIL went to my nephew's teacher/parent night at a private high school in Fort Lauderdale. There were two new teachers from the public school system. One was Chinese teacher. She was in bliss. She could not believe how wonderful it was to be a teacher at the school. The students are respectful, they want to learn, they work hard and the parents are interested in the school, their children and the teachers. The other teacher is teaching calculus. He said the same thing.
Teachers in Illinois get 75% of average of last 4 years of salary after 30 years. Still think that's not generous?