And you, Jacob, are a boor. I think. What are you talking about?

Teachers make more than most small business owners…not to mention the plan that all government employees get in California:
Work ten years, collect pension for thirty.

Aren't there any math teachers who can give us an equation which proves that those of us who aren't lazy and worthless can't pay for 80% of the population to work a third of their lives and collect taxpayer money the other two thirds??

Farmers and many others have jobs that might actually hurt them physically, provide a service that is even more fundamental than education and, believe it or not, WORK THEIR WHOLE LIVES!!
I was forced through the misery that is the California educational system during its most pathetic, negligent and incompetent years so I know first hand what these bitter parasites are capable of!

But, yeah, I think most schools in this country could benefit from firing 10% of their teachers and replacing them with someone else. I'd also be surprised if most administrators and students couldn't tell you who those people are with a fairly high degree of agreement.

Confronted with the problem, school district lawyers and administrators suggested to my mother that she put him in a class with ESL students

So, wait, he was put in charge of an ESL class after he died in a car crash? I know they take tenure seriously, but damn!

My contribution was to dice and read the Wall Street Journal (and yes, I know I'm an asshole for letting this all go on). She was eventually diagnosed with dementia of some kind and retired.

A year after I graduated.

This is clearly not an example of a teacher who needed to be fired for cause; however, it shows exactly how little accountability there is in some public schools. Everybody knew about this, but the handful of people who said something to other teachers were told they were being disrespectful.

Oh, well. At least I got an A+ in English.

a) dealing drugs to her students
b) sleeping with at least two of them.
c) and was, surprise, not a very good teacher.

b) and c) were common knowledge, a) was not proven but was understood to be happening.

The woman taught at that high school for four years. Then she was traded to another school in exchange for, I guess, a teacher that had equally bad habits but would at least not have sex her his/her students during school hours.

Not fired. Not arrested. Traded like a baseball player.

I'd have the details on the trade but that was the year my wife finally had enough of teaching in the public schools and traded up to a private school.

How can one afford enough coke to become that addled on a teacher's salary?