>stop underpaying teachers aid, subs, etc

This one hits home big time. I got my teaching license and took the first job offered to me: In school suspension teacher. My pay maxed out after 2 years at $12.50/hr yet they wanted me to have/maintain a license. That shit wouldn't even cover my loans and I already had a kid at that point.

I thought it would be a foot in the door to a full time position in my actual subject area. Every year I was there a position opened up but they didn't offer it to me because nobody wants the job dealing with the "bad kids" and I was way too good at it. I fuckin quit after 3years. The day I left I could have had an army of those "bad kids" follow me into battle without question because I was the only one to treat any of them like a real person. I don't even teach anymore, not for that kind of bullshit money.