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It's culture. American culture treats teaching and education like a free babysitting service, and pays teachers accordingly.

If our culture valued education we would value teachers and their ability to teach, and we so clearly do not.

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I assure you, it’s similar in many EU countries. Teachers are usually paid very little, governments are not doing much to keep them, due to really bad demographics forecasts in most countries.

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