No one is really going to try and stop this.

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2. Spend time instructing in a classroom and the difference is noticeable.

It's more than just that, but Republicans have gutted public education, the biggest damage coming during the Reagan-Bush years and then again under W, and now Trump. A profession with some of the highest demand for continuing professional development and education doesn't have the resources to provide it, and so the highly qualified candidates are dropping out and going into other areas. The school district where I grew up, in a small town in Arizona, has been experiencing a crisis in this area for over a decade, to the point where they do not get enough certified applicants for the positions they have open. And at starting pay of just under $40,000, they won't be able to, either. But put a school tax levy on the ballot and the Republican constituencies in the community vote it down.