It has already been pointed out what a fallacy your "sweet deal" claims are. Thank you for so well illustrating my point about how teachers have a right to ***** considering the vilification they are subject to.
I fear you are making this a cart befoire the horse thing.
No one was villifying them.
To the contrary, they were not even a subject of conversation other than the whole "tenure" issue...
However, when a few governors said "teachers need to be like everyone else and not continually get raises in recessions and all benefits and pensions paid for becuase we cant afford to do it anymore"....people on the left started to put them on a pedestal...saying that teachers are our future....and teachers make great sacrifices...and teachers work harder than anyone...and so on and so on...
So we just simply said...teachers are important and so are so many other trades in our republic....stop making them out to be the end all.
But no one is villifying them.