WON'T

We pat our school teachers on the head and send them off to do the dirty work of the age: raising our children.

They aren’t paid nearly enough.

And we have all agreed to accept that fact. You have, I have, the teachers have. We won’t pay them enough is what we mean.

We prefer to spend money on the hardware of schooling...the facilities, the computers!, those magical white boards that can be written on with magic pens.

And we like to compensate the people who run the schools. We pay most of them two or three times as much as the teachers. Because they break up the fights, argue with the parents, and stand charge of teacher meetings.

This is the way we want it to be. We should quit acting as if a fix is imminent. It is not. We—all of us—like it this way.