No problem. There seems to be a lot that many people here just don't seem to understand or don't want to understand when it comes to teaching and what teachers do. Living in Finland I can say that I am relatively fortunate as a teacher as our system is generally considered among the best in the world, but even we've had a lot of cuts to education in the last 5 years, and from what I've read things are a lot worse elsewhere in the world, like in the US.

Often people just don't seem to realize that with how the educational systems have been set up in some places teachers are sometimes just unable to do the job they're supposed to through no fault of their own. Teaching is very much a calling, and like you said, it's not something a person does to become rich, but there's still a certain expectation when it comes to salary for a person whose had to spend several years studying at a university level to even qualify for that job.

Everyone has the right to deny service if they feel they aren't getting compensated, it's what provided the conditions we mostly enjoy in modern times

Not convenient, but I believe life needs to break you in for your to have political power. Young people are leftists usually and idealistic, once life breaks them in they become more reasonable

The young have the "reasoning", they are generally concerned about fairness and logic, what happens as we age and experience life we become "fearful" this pushes us in a more conservative direction 

There is actually strong scientific evidence of the difference in your brain depending on political preference, conservatives having the brain of a more fearful person  

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/psychological-differences-between-conservatives-and-liberals-2018-2?r=US&IR=T 

Conservative doesnt mean anything. a 90s liberal is a todays conservative, these spectrums are always changing

Here's a picture of what it is like in Arizona, my home state:

This is about so much more than just salaries and wages.

The fact of the matter is, year in and year out, our teachers are being asked to do more with less. 
They essentially have to be a 3rd parent to 40-60 different kids, while not making as much money as the kids' actual parents, to try and support themselves and their own kids. And they have to do this with pisspoor funding, severely outdated textbooks, and diminishing resources. 
To anyone who is a parent, how would you feel about your child's/childrens' education being shortchanged like this?
The teachers are taking matters into their own hands and doing this now, so that our kids and their parents won't have to do it later. So that they receive better support and get more out of their education than the teachers are able to provide at the moment. 

I agree with it. The USA is just so corrupt at this point that people are gonna have to begin striking to get a fair shake. Goverments and companies tell the public they have no money yet every year these same organizations are posting record profit, many times profit in the billions.
In NY i manage about 40 employees and when the NY min wage increases became a thing the company cried their ass off about how much more they have to pay the people running their operation. 1/yr year later the min wage increases did not even impact the budget. Over the course of 5 years everyone gets $1 increase and if they all work fulltime its a total of $84k per year or $415k in 5 years...... in 5 years the operation will profit $25 million dollars.

They are not underpaid. They work in office conditions and get a paid whole summer vacation. They're acting entitled. If anything, their workload should be increased to keep them busy enough so they can't have orgies with their students and maybe the kids will eat less tide pods. Btw, I'm not saying that the teachers all do that but it's happening alot more. 

Yeah, or maybe its because 1/3rd of their teachers aren’t even qualified to teach them because all the qualified people are leaving the profession and not enough people are entering it...  teachers also don’t get paid over the summer, those are no pay days.  You can choose to have your check split up so you get a paycheck, but we aren’t paid for that break.  Also sounds like you need to spend a day in a classroom.  I have worked construction jobs and landscaping jobs and you various minimum wage retail jobs and I am way more exhausted at the end of a day of teaching then any of those jobs. But whatever, sounds like you have your opinion, even if it isn’t based on reality...

How many offices do you know that have 25-30 kids that they need to take care of? An office is a stable environment with adults. I don't think you have even the slightest clue of what teaching entails.