The underlying issue is not teacher pay, but rather the number of teachers available to support pupils at a ratio that allows pupils to learn and engage with material they need to know.

Now the answer to how to get more teschers and smaller classrooms, paying teachers more to encourage more people working as teachers is reasonable. But hardly the one thing that will fix everything woth magic.

Students need more engagement time with their teachers and a class of 30-40 would never allow that during a lesson

Also, we need “some children left behind”. Some real problematic children destroying the learning opertunties of others. Wife is an elementary teacher and would have one, maybe two, tier 3 students (most difficult behaviors) and now will have three to five in a class.