[TurdFerguson]

My wife is a public teacher (so i have a slanted view I'm sure) and honestly, I have no idea how the hell she does it. The public system and administration is a joke, riddled with authority stripping and incompetence promoting procedures and limitations. As with most strongly unionized professions, there seems to be a materiel amount of "legacy teachers" that, frankly, are not good at there job any more, no longer evolve as a professional and basically mail it in year-over-year (to be clear there are terrible teachers regardless of experience). My wife was working with a "team member" that was teaching a curriculum that was 6 years old! honestly, WTF. I'd love to see a system that helps to curb this. That said, teaching also has a ridiculous attrition rate in the first 5 years...making the standards higher, or more time consuming will surely only increase this. Combine that with the general feeling amongst teachers that there are not enough resources, class sizes are way to big and overall expectations for "after-hours work" are too high and I expect the union to push back pretty hard on this, despite the well placed intent.