Doctors are professionals who work on a mutually acceptable basis with their patients, with rare exceptions, such as in the military. It is the number of patients they attract, and the fees they can charge, that determine how much each doctor is paid. Teachers, while often referred to as professionals, especially by themselves, are in actuality public employees. In brief, too many teachers, who want to be paid as much as doctors, or other professionals, are afraid functioning like doctors and other professionals, on a mutually acceptable basis with those they serve. Parental, or school, choice, will free teachers, more than students or parents, just as, in medicine, it is the doctors who are freer than their patients.
Doctors make the basic medical decisions, and rightly so.
What patients ask, and receive, is the right, and ability, to go to the doctor of their choice. In the final analysis, teachers don't get paid like doctors because they don't and won't practice like doctors. As long as they insist on having a captive audience and to be collectively paid on a standard basis, they will be the victims of their own insecurity.