JO, Aloha is not idicative of the teachers in the district that I know.
I golf with a retired teacher who says he wishes he had stayed. Air conditioned classes, better pay and shorter days. He taught at the high school on the second floor in the days of no air and no heat schedule. He truly cared about his kids.
Aloha has a right to be somewhat dienchanted with the system today. The state does put incredible goals out there. Parents are not as involved, some by choice. Kids seem to be less respectful to adults. Okay, that's the way it is. You deal, you adapt and you move on.
My issue with her is she forgets where things were and how they were. Rather she wants to admit it or not she's paid well now. She works about 180 days or so according to the school calendar. She might work nine hours a day, giving her credit for some home time. That's under 1700 hours a year. She probably makes in excess of $65,000 a year so do the math. It's not a bad hourly rate.
Teaching is a career very much of choice. You don't do it to get rich. You don't do it to get a big pat on the back from the boss. You do it because you love kids, you love the idea of sharing your knowledge with those kids and you want those kids to become somebody. If you don't, you're in the wrong game.