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 . Click here to respond to this editorial . Why not submit an article for me to put here.