. . . conversations about teacher's salaries.

For decades we have been paying teachers less than skilled laborers. We consider the services of plumbers and electricians to be of more financial value than those of teachers. What's at the root of this inequity? Given that payment is an acknowledgment one can't help but wonder if there is a correlation between the way we acknowledge teachers (compared with carpenters and longshoremen) and our experience of love, health, and prosperity (a sustainable economy).

History reveals that there has been an unacknowledged conspiracy to keep teachers pathetically begging for salaries, supplies, and building maintenance funds. What have we been trying to communicate by subjecting our mentors to this humiliating disrespectful treatment?