Teachers are overpaid   stance: teachers are overpaid:
The average salary of an american is 32,000$
the average salary of a teacher (not including the monetary value of benefits) is 53,000$
In wisconsin, the salary including benefits is 75,000$
4.5 billion is spent on teacher salaries, and 1.6 billion is spent on their insane amount of benefits.
I believe that this is a huge amount of money for someone to receive, especially since all mediocre teachers are practically impossible to fire.
Teachers should be paid and given raises based on performance, not the amount of years they stayed at the school.
I recommend watching the documentary 'waiting for superman', because it sheds light on the many imperfections of our failing public school system.
The US should have close to the highest test scores, but because of our abundance of average teachers that cant be fired, we are not. Instead, the US has some of the lowest scores.