I think you're being too harsh on educators. The vast majority of educators I encountered went into the field to support children to create opportunities for them to thrive and grow.

It is a self-sacrificing profession that requires an unbelievable amount of commitment, and has uncountable factors working against it.

It is attacked by politicians, it is attacked by the general public, who feel they are experts on the profession because they went to school... It is attacked at the state level, and at the district level.

Teachers are fighting against turning kids into data points for college and career readiness, which view kids as cogs in the economic wheel, and not humans that have a civic duty to grow into their fullest selves.

You can hate on education all you like, but educators are the ones on the ground trying their best to make it something worthwhile.

There are just a lot of factors that are in play that prevent teachers from being able to teach and be teachers first and foremost.