> I’m saying paying them more isn’t going to fix the problems.

I fundamentally disagree. How can we expect teachers living paycheck to paycheck to educate kids well? They have no emergency fund. They're one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. They don't have retirement savings, and they have no idea when they'll be able to start saving for retirement. Being poor isn't just financial, that stress creeps into every aspect of your life including your job.

Also, I want to note one thing. It's not the dollar amount specifically I'm talking about. Sure, it would be a quick fix in my mind to pay teachers more. But really it comes down to how those dollars are being spent. In our country, too much money is being spent on student loans, housing, healthcare, food, and transportation. If the prices for all of those could come down, that would work too. It's about getting teachers out living paycheck to paycheck.

> The reason you make more is because your company presumably has revenue.

Public schools are a service our government provides for us because there's an understanding that education is important. So important that we actually require children to be educated, which is obviously a good thing. If you ask what's the revenue source, it's called taxes. If we don't have enough money to pay teachers livable wages, we either need to take money from somewhere else cough the military-industrial complex cough or increase taxes on the rich. And when I say rich, I mean the filthy rich. The people who pay almost no taxes currently and instead put the tax burden on the poor and disappearing middle-class families. The highest marginal tax rate reached nearly 94% in the 1940's. Right now, our highest marginal tax rate is just 37%. Essentially if you make 570 million per year in the US you pay no more money relatively speaking than someone making 570 thousand per year. If we taxed the rich more, we could easily pay for better education in the US.

I think the solution people are proposing is paying teachers more AND removing all the fat from the administration side in order to help fund some of it. This will not be enough since the education system has been through decades of being gutted in favor of stealing the public's money in favor of private interests. I am including the whole welfare system the U.S has in its "defense" budget that seems to be invisible to both parties who will otherwise fight tooth an nail for every other bone and scrap that comes in sight.

The U.S should be aiming for something like Finland for its education system. Their secret sauce is not what they teach at all. Teachers are well paid and its a very desirable job therefore its very competitive.

Contrast that to the U.S where its just above the poverty line and therefore most people do not want to do it.