Some naval personnel are worth their money, others are not.
My daughter is a year head and head of English. She is on reasonable money BUT she works, on average three and a half hours at home at the end of her full eight hour day, she works all weekends at home and at least one full Saturday at school for extra mural activities.
This summer she took two weeks holiday from the six weeks allocated because the school is changing to IB and there were a lot of meetings and discussions on syllabus. She is also on a two year (renewable) contract.
So, mister, get you facts straight before typing your biased comments.
BTW there are also useless teachers at her school who dont deserve 76 cents an hour but they tend to be very much in a minority. Eventually those will be weeded out by the quality control system in which every teacher is examined at least once per term by a senior teacher and term and exam results scrutinised at the end of every year.
The results she achieves would knock your socks off and make even the best UK stats pale into insignificance.
$76.00 per hour? No, that is not excessive.
Your experience in the UK or wherever you're posting from, mean nothing to us in the US......you are not here, describing what goes on here or in Chicago....
You're 'useless teachers' may get weeded out....here we have strong militant unions and tenure and they breed more laziness and incompetence
The results she achieves may be wonderful as you say....educated yourself on Chicago results and elsewhere in the US.....hardly wonderful, more like dismal.....
We have HS grads that cannot read on a grade-school level nor write a coherent sentence....prospective employers complain,
You take one good teacher an apply in to all.....I take the worst of our results and also apply it with a wide brush.....
There are exceptions to every rule as they say.....and have her work on your English some, looks like you could use it....