Okay. So if you mean that teaching at one time paid fairly and was seen better as a profession, then all the more reason to question why it’s not now. I was just adding my own experience of people being forced out of teaching because it’s not sustainable as an income. Which while may not have been true in the whole of human history, has been true long enough to change the very nature and image of teachers in the US.

I could have gone further back. I remember as a kid in the 70s and teachers still having to buy supplies because the budget wasn’t enough. But again, that’s not ALL of history, so…