As the child of two teachers, my parents always told me &quot;do whatever you want in life, don&#x27;t be a teacher&quot;.<p>Both of them got into the profession out of a desire to teach, both ended up in administration roles out of a desire not to be poor.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t just we &quot;under pay&quot; it is that we &quot;over ask&quot;.<p>For those of you who haven&#x27;t visited a school recently, getting into the building is more of a hassle than getting on a plane. Want to volunteer at your school, go get fingerprinted and give up your SSN to and underfunded and over worked staff and hope they don&#x27;t let that amount of personal information out. Want to send your kid to school in CA, well you need to get them vaccinated, and tracking that has fallen to schools (what ever your position about this, shoving it into the department of education makes NO sense). Hell the paperwork to just enroll your kids is monstrous, its easier to register to vote, than it is to register your kids. I won&#x27;t even cover sports &gt; art(s) when it comes to budget: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thinkprogress.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;2412381&#x2F;public-schools-slash-arts-education-relying-more-on-private-arts-funding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thinkprogress.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;2412381&#x2F;public...</a> is a good read if your interested.<p>Meanwhile, how much of a teachers job has become acting as an extension of an overzealous CPS&#x2F;child saver environment? Well the leadership at institutions is doing stuff like this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox26houston.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;117783912-story" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox26houston.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;117783912-story</a> and if you think insanity at this level is isolated, you just haven&#x27;t looked. There are schools who have gone so far as to &quot;ban peanut butter&quot;, for the safety of other students: your more likely to get hit by lightning than die from peanut butter.<p>You want to fix pay, and quality of education... give more money to hiring teachers to do NOTHING BUT TEACH. Lets pass a law that says you have to spend as much on students as you do on prisoners: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;infographic&#x2F;economy&#x2F;education-vs-prison-costs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;infographic&#x2F;economy&#x2F;education-vs-prison...</a><p>Schools are now a direct path to jail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;fact-sheet&#x2F;what-school-prison-pipeline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;fact-sheet&#x2F;what-school-prison-pipeline</a>