If you know teachers, they are far from the cream of the crop high achievers in society, despite their excessive pay, benefits and joke hours. Toss in their entitled attitude and how poorly they do their jobs shows what union extortion gets you if you don't reign it in. It gets out of control  and we pay 100K a year each for someone who isn't helping our kids at all. Wonderful isn't it? Teaching is an avg to low end job which is full of lazy people who want a free ride on the taxpayers dime. Does it surprise you our kids don't have a chance unless you help teach them yourselves?