When I was growing up, my parents both worked as faculty members for a small state university. Their work included research, writing, advising and, in my father's case, oversight of the livestock on the state experimental farm.
He worked 12 months of the year, mother worked 10. Neither ever made what the unionized school teachers in the local school district made in nine months even though they had longer working hours and a higher educational attainment.
I'm not whining. That's just an observation. And the gap has only grown worse in the quarter century since they retired.
I’ve noticed lately whenever there’s a thing about the cost of running a public school it’s the teachers salaries that always comes up; on how much they make for only a six hour day and work only ten months a year. Until people find out exactly how their salaries are paid out and the time they put in (upper grades homework correction, etc) and putting up with the snowflake’s parents during teachers conferences (after school BTW - own time) teachers are going to be the whipping boy for government excess - not politicians, not roads and grounds, not any other government employee.