teaching in most schools is babysitting. That&#x27;s why the pay is so low. For the schools where the primary purpose is not babysitting, the salaries are pulled down by the majority of ones where it is.<p>We require a college degree to assuage our consciences that schools are not about babysitting and to mask the gigantic class differences between the school districts in high property value areas and the ones in low property value areas.<p>Few white collar jobs have unions. The teachers do because though they may not be blue collar workers they are in a very blue collar&#x2F;laborer field - babysitting.<p>This is not the fault of the teachers. But due to many historical artifacts, political maneuvering and societal dishonesty they are the ones primarily responsible for bridging this unfortunate civilization-wide reality gap