1. Part A. No citations. Not to mention that Oklahoma and Arizona went up and those that went down did so by not even a whole student (except Colorado).

Part B. You must be unaware of the increased work load of teachers over the years.  School funding cuts have forced teachers to take on extra roles.  After school programs, arrival/dismissal operations, etc....  There is further pressure due standardized testing that requires teachers from many states to prepare students for high stakes testing along side the daily curriculum.  Basically, teachers are being asked to do more with less.  Did you forget that a lot of teachers must pay out of pocket for class room supplies?  Are you aware that Trump's new tax plan removed the teacher tax write off? Did you forget that many teachers haven't had a pay increase in a decade as in the case for Oklahoma?

Part C.  You can't dictate current pay for future education methodologies. Just because VR may become a ubuquitious education tool doesn't mean you can underpay teachers now. Also, my wife's classroom has 4 computers.  That's only 1 more computer than I had as a student over 30 years ago.

2. You still don't understand what reauthorizing the ESEA is.
https://www.ed.gov/esea

"The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015, and represents good news for our nation’s schools. This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation’s national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students."

Oh...and you still haven't found me a state that doesn't require a Bachelor's degree.  Keep looking.  We'll wait.

3. Did you really just ask why state representatives aren't in lock step with their constituents? How long have you followed politics?

And let me understand your corollary here.  I'm supposed to believe that nationally people agree with the teacher strikes but the people in each states do not? Because that is in your insinuation.

4. Considering points 1 (A, B and C) and 2, you've disproved nothing nor have I shifted goalposts.  If anyone is shifting goalposts, it's you with your future decades argument about how VR, AR and AI should dictate current pay rates.

I'm all for better teaching wages and conditions, but I never liked this argument. You're comparing world class athletes entertaining millions to the average teacher educating hundreds. The average athlete (the other 99% not in the big leagues) makes WAY less than the average teacher (little to nothing). Anyone teaching millions of people (through writing books or making programs) could well be making millions themselves. Same goes for comparisons to world class actors, musicians, entrepreneurs, etc.

Would it suit you better if I said we spend more on entertainment than on education? 

Sure. Are there any hard numbers for that, though?

For those who don't know, a wave of (heavily under-reported) strikes organized online by teachers has been sweeping across the U.S. over the last couple months. The first strike wave took place in West Virginia, which won a number of concessions from the state government, inspiring teachers in Oklahoma and now Arizona to join in as well as, to lesser degrees, those in Kentucky and Colorado as well. Educators in these states typically have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet and are saddled with oversized classes, a shortage of textbooks, and frankly a shortage of other teachers because nobody wants the job due to the conditions. In Oklahoma, some 20% of the schools have resorted to four-day school weeks due to funding shortages, which of course only further elevates the burden on teachers. Many schools across these states have even ceased to use heating and air conditioning to save money.

These strikes demand substantial increases in pay for teachers and other school staff, as well as the restoration of pre-recession funding levels and an end to the privatization of public schools that is being advanced by the Trump Administration and supported by state governments (most aggressively by the Republican-controlled ones).

I can only support the action of the teachers. With working under those conditions, having no work at all almost looks like an upgrade.

These actions have been organized by teachers themselves online, not called by their unions. In that connection, the World Socialist Web Site has, in their coverage, made what I think is an important point about the role of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers -- the main teacher unions -- in this struggle:

"In order to carry their struggle forward, teachers in Arizona and Colorado must learn the lessons of the West Virginia and Oklahoma strikes. In each case, the unions sought to isolate the struggle and redirect it behind voting for Democrats in the mid-term elections.

The unions see it as their task to ensure “labor peace.” In a comment to the Washington Post, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten ($500,000/year salary), wrote that if the unions are weakened struggles like that in West Virginia “will be multiplied and magnified across the country.”

It is no coincidence that the teachers’ struggle has broken out first in states where the unions have less of a stranglehold. In Arizona, a state with over 50,000 teachers, the Arizona Education Association has fewer than 20,000 members."

Ugh, now that's seriously messed up! No wonder unions are not nearly as well looked upon as they do in Europe.

Unions in this country serve the opposite of their official role anymore. They exist much more to contain and undermine labor actions rather than to represent and advance the interests of the workers they purport to represent. From fast food strikes to these, there are more labor actions happening in this country right now among non-union workers than among those who have unions.

I'm of the persuasion that schools should be public property, funded equally and well (not shortchanged to pay for unnecessary subsidies for industries like oil and natural gas), and run by the teachers who work there and know their students and their individual needs rather than by administrative staff that doesn't.

Mostly this.

However, I don't rule out the mere existence of private schools. Just the playfield needs to be levelled, so students from either public or private schools would have the same education and chances later in life. Private schools can give out benefits in other, non-critical fields, like maybe better and broader food choices, but the education (and level of education) needs to be strictly identical.

So anyway, do you consider yourself a supporter of these strike actions?