US colleges identify shortcomings in teacher training

Average teacher salary in the US is $45,622. The average doctor is $294,000. The average engineer is $99,738. May be the issue. Increasing education requirements and adding more hoops likely will cause people with good stem skills and abilities to seek more lucrative employment than teaching. Those left behind to teach will not have the knowledge base in STEM. Just thought would discuss the elephant in the room that teaching is undervalued as it paid through public taxes and we all know public servants are lazy and not very bright therefore underdeserving of higher remuneration. As with doctors and engineers, the solution likely is to privatize the system. Star schools and star teachers would then be paid what the market can bear.