"how do you propose to pay them what you think they are worth? raise property taxes so high that nobody can pay them? Neither I nor you nor anyone that I know thinks that teachers don't deserve a monetary reward proportional to their importance and output (which are substantial), but the problem is that higher wages are not that easy to dole out. Futhermore, multiple instances I've heard of across the country prove that the quality of education at a given school has very little to do with the amount of money thrown at said school. There are cases where one of the poorest districts in an area can have the highest quality of education. I could go on for hours about what is wrong with our education system, but suffice it to say that in most instances it is not in the child's best interest to entrust their education to the state (and more and more, the federal government, even though the Constitution gives them no say in the matter)." - Garrett W.