My experience of teachers is in Canada, and spans my children's (15 and 25) current and completed school careers and my wife's employment at the local university's BEd program. While I've met a couple of exceptional and outstanding teachers in the last two decades, they are vanishingly rare. By far, the majority of teachers I have met call themselves teachers, but are, in reality, dispensers of goverment-directed and union-approved knowledge. They use the internet to produce generic fill-in-the-blank exercises, send home atrociously spelled and grammatically incorrect instructions that don't make sense (when there's anything sent home at all), and only hold the kids to the lowest standards, so that everyone can pass. Their unions fight for maximal pay, but demand increasingly minimal interaction with the children. Teachers can't volunteer their time anymore, staying to help kids that need it, or running clubs. In many cases, they don't even supervise the children during lunch hours, instead relying on community volunteers, or, more commonly have the grade 6 kids watch the younger kids. Of course, this is the same province that famously allows a shop class teacher to wear impossibly huge prosthetic breasts because presumably it helps him deal with teenage boys or something. I would love to see teachers being paid according to their worth, but with the standards they are set for the kids and themselves model, a lot of them are already.

TLDR: Teachers deserve better, mechanical, unionized, education dispensers really don't.