The table isn’t cherry picking. Shows quantities of teachers within a range. It does not support the myth that teachers are poorly paid. Everyone has pain-in-the-butt people to deal with in their jobs, with limitations on their actions.
The unions have done this to themselves. They let the miscreants & radicals stay on, if not be encouraged. Now when times are tough, people are giving them a hard look, and red flags are going up all over the place.
What I was trying to get at (albeit poorly) was that there are tons of great people out there in the education system, and they’re getting short shrift. “The accident did not happen” never makes the headlines.