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What to do
It sounds to me that you have two different arguments going on at the same time; One, is your beef about the way teachers get paid, and the other is the quality of education students receive. It's going to be very hard to make them common arguments, because we live in an imperfect world with imperfect market conditions. That's also why unions were created, because of the unfairness that teachers were being treated "early on" by local citizens.
Are there bad teachers? Yes, you know it and I know it. Empower your administration to fire them, stop protecting the bad teachers. The bad news is we can't protect the "good" teachers, either. De-regulate licensing for teachers, empower administrators, give school vouchers, and hold parents and kids responsible for their own education.