do you even know any teachers?
i have several in my family as well as my neighbors. i can promise you, they do a little more than "jack shit".
i worked a government job for a couple years in college and applied myself and was the top earner when i left.
i wasn't commenting on legacy cost percentages, i was talking about your assertion that half of public workers could be fired and not missed. i make the radical assumption that teachers would be fairly represented in your equation, being public sector employees and all, and did simple math to determine our new classroom sizes.
(sarcasm) researchers at pepperdine have definitively proven that children learn better in crowded classrooms than reasonable ones. (/sarcasm)
studies have consistently shown, however, that public sector employees are better educated, more qualified, and more experienced than their public sector colleagues. that might explain why they earn a nominal amount more.
it appears to me that your rage coincides with a high school dropout or junior college burnout who damns the unfair nature of those who apply themselves earning more than those who do not.
did you make it through high school with an ashtray (junior college), or even high school for that matter?