I know a bunch of teachers. There is a huge elephant in this room that no one wants to acknowledge and that is the incredibly crappy quality of school administrators. many of the administrators I know would survive about one month as managers in the private sector and get tossed out on their ears.

Administrators can easily make teachers' lives pure hell, and play funding games to "encourage" compliance with whatever stupid ideas they come up with.

The administrators are the ones getting the really big bucks, and are too often undeserving of them.