I dont know how all the schools get their money but some of my county tax goes to the schools one is in town the other out in the country. At the board meeting they discuss how much money they have and what to spend it on. They fired one superintendent at our school, the one in the country, for not getting enough grant money for the school year.

FYI I may have been a teacher. I taught two students, every subject, k through 12 for about 15 years in the home school system.

LOL then you have NO IDEAL

My point in all this as the original post from REX wasn't about the teachers PAY. They weren't protesting because of their salaries. IT WAS THE RETIREMENT CHANGES and cutting classroom funding bill that GOV tried to push thru hidden in a sewer monitoring bill.........
He was wrong on the particulars of the protest just saying.

My wife retired 4 years ago. She taught special ed at the high school level. She used to take our 3 kid’s clothes, coats, shoes etc to school every year and give them to her students who needed them. She still stays in contact with dozens of those kids, many years after they graduated, going to their weddings , going to the hospital to gawk at their babies, and to the funeral home when there’s a death in their families. She treated her “ kids” better than many of their own parents did.

In a perfect world, all parents could be capable and would be willing to do this. Unfortunately the way our society has evolved over the past 3/4 of a century or so, it's very difficult to make it on one income for the household. I often feel guilty when I come home at night and only get to spend 2 or 3 waking hours with my own three kids after spending 8 hours all day with other people's kids. My choice, the career I picked, the lifestyle I picked, etc. I know.
I will say, however, that being able to spend three full months a year dedicated to just my kids all day, every day makes it worth it. Having a similar schedule to your kids (and wife in my case as she's also a teacher) is probably the biggest benefit to teaching in my mind.