Very negative, PA was the home of one of the two original state teachers colleges in 1853, Penn State and MI State.
No men were teachers, it wasn’t respected. That’s why they had to establish state colleges to turn out lib teachers, that’s worked well.
The one that really galls me is my sophomore math teacher. I was in the advanced class and the guy bored me to death.
He couldn’t get past the augmented matrix he was trying to solve on the blackboard and called on me. I was reading Field & Stream because I was bored. I had to figure it out fast and simply told him “You made a mistake”. Didn’t tell him where, went back to reading.
Teachers threatened to go on strike in PA back in the late 60s, previously against the law. They should have been fired like the air traffic controllers. When they were paid more they worked less. Believe me, I lived it, and they were the bottom of the barrel.
After I graduated HS my uncle told me about the 4 Social Studies teachers who infested the local tavern, play cards with themselves and no one talked to them. They’d sit on their nickel beer, take up space and wait for a real working man to buy a round. Owner couldn’t throw them out as long as they didn’t empty their glass, but you can bet he was asked to more than once.