I am going to suggest that raising teacher salaries will do little to nothing to increase the intellectual quality of the teacher pool until the actual working conditions and supervisory practices are brought more into line with those appropriate for highly intelligent people. I know a few highly gifted individuals who went into teaching, loved the actual "teaching kids" part of the job, and left the field because of the way they were continually mistreated by administration. They all said that there was no amount of money that would make up for continually being treated like an idiot who had no choice but to accept whatever arbitrary and unreasonable garbage the administration dished out.
