I left K-12 education in November after 5 years. Teachers are ridiculously under paid. I taught science and ran a STEAM lab. I left to go to work in courseware development in corporate education. Teachers are tasked with an ever increasing amount of expectations that have nothing to do with teaching, taking temps, cleaning surfaces, attending redundant unnecessary faculty meetings, unhelpful professional development, mandatory parental contact logs, ridiculous detailed written daily lesson plans.
The pandoras box in education has been opened.
There has been a MASIVE exodus of teachers, and a HUGE decline in the number of people taking Education as a Major in college.
We are going to have serious teacher shortages that is going to get worse and worse until we re-evaluate how we educate our children.