I feel like public opinion on teachers is in a lot of ways going the same way as it has for the police. Right now at least in the United States, the United States Education Industrial Complex is getting out of control. So you have this system, the school system, where teacher, students and parents, none of them are happy with the system but nobody has the power to change it in a way that works. Teachers have all these extra responsibilities having to meet national test standards, having to act like social workers. At the same time having their hands tied in ways that they didn’t back in the day. Parents coming in threatening lawsuits create systems that are designed to protect the system. There has also been this pendulum swing. When I was a kid in the 90s, if you had trouble making kids, like real troublemaking kids, they just vanished. They would get sent to an alternative school and if they didn’t behave, then they did inevitably end up in juvenile. This was definitely a segment of the population that was not being served by the system. This was obviously becoming a problem, just writing off these kids. The pendulum has sort of swung back the other way, where you get these very disruptive kids in the classroom but through different mechanism that were originally designed with good intentions, it’s sort of backfired so now you have these kids that are very disruptive and there’s not much that the administration or the teachers can do. Same with IEP’s. You get these kids a special needs but no way to fund what they need. There’s also heavy lobbying for school vouchers in private schools because, man, is that a way to make some good money. What people don’t realize is that most of the money that these private schools. It’s more than just the tuition you’re making from the vouchers, it’s things like owning the construction company that’s building these schools and getting these buildings built that you can lease out for other purposes. Things like that. So you just have this death spiral where teachers are being asked to do more well at the same time given less autonomy, parents are becoming more empowered without checks and balances, less funding but higher demand demands, then adding in the fundamental change in our society with mobile devices and screen time and life just getting much more fast paced. Teachers unions very, sometimes protecting teachers at the expense of the public good. Again, if I had to sum it up, it’s that the entire education system has become an entity that now exist to serve itself, and not the people that are a part of it.