Why do so many people continuously make this mistake? How hard a job allegedly is is irrelevant. What matters is how hard it is to fill the positions. Given that we can require so many to hve masters and doctorates and still get average salary where it is tells you its easy to fill, therefore these guys are overpaid, if it was hard to fill we would hace a higher percentage as just bachelors and comp would be higher.
States have been dropping teaching certificate requirements for a long time. Some states go so far as to give pretty much anyone that can pass the background check a provisional certificate, giving them years to meet the actual requirements.
Staffing of teachers is a hard job, some districts have full time staff just trying to fill the classrooms.
Well, after getting paid insane amounts of money to write software, pretty much any job I could realistically get will appear underpaid to me. Having said that, I'm sure there are investors at hedge funds that would commit suicide if they only earned what I earn in a year.
