I'd like to offer a contrarian view. Note I'm a former tech enterpreneur, switched late in life to teaching CS in college 5 years ago, several members in my family are HS teachers.
1. Teacher aren't respected any more. True. The main reason: outcome quality is dropping. Reading/math proficiency has been dropping for tens of years. The general public knows this.
2. Disorderly classrooms. Due to changing norms and morals, setups where kids don't face the teacher but each other or even the back of the back wall it's become impossible to keep everyone focused. Everybody suffers.
3. Endless new teaching methods, experiments. Misconceptions like: 'kids nowadays need 21st century skills', 'knowledge can be acquired from the internet', 'almost nobody needs algebra later on in life', 'kids can decide for themselves what they need to learn'. No.
4. Smaller families lead to more attention per child, princes and princesses, helicopter parents. School admin also bend the knee towards this.
5. Kids with special needs get way more attention, which is a time sink. More and more kids are getting a label.
6. Most contentious opinion: men teach differently from women. We need more men in the classroom. Women try to treat boys like girls. But boys have more energy and need more playtime outside. After they get rid of that energy they'll pay more attention in class. All this leads to boys dropping out way more often.
7. Education standards for becoming a teacher are too low. Many teachers can't even to math properly, or can't spell themselves.
I deliberately have been blunt while writing the above list. Take that into account.
1. Teacher aren't respected any more. True. The main reason: outcome quality is dropping. Reading/math proficiency has been dropping for tens of years. The general public knows this.
2. Disorderly classrooms. Due to changing norms and morals, setups where kids don't face the teacher but each other or even the back of the back wall it's become impossible to keep everyone focused. Everybody suffers.
3. Endless new teaching methods, experiments. Misconceptions like: 'kids nowadays need 21st century skills', 'knowledge can be acquired from the internet', 'almost nobody needs algebra later on in life', 'kids can decide for themselves what they need to learn'. No.
4. Smaller families lead to more attention per child, princes and princesses, helicopter parents. School admin also bend the knee towards this.
5. Kids with special needs get way more attention, which is a time sink. More and more kids are getting a label.
6. Most contentious opinion: men teach differently from women. We need more men in the classroom. Women try to treat boys like girls. But boys have more energy and need more playtime outside. After they get rid of that energy they'll pay more attention in class. All this leads to boys dropping out way more often.
7. Education standards for becoming a teacher are too low. Many teachers can't even to math properly, or can't spell themselves.
I deliberately have been blunt while writing the above list. Take that into account.