> <i>For Dallas schools, “it’s about the passion, not about the paper,” said Robert Abel, the district’s human capital management chief.</i><p>It's also about the paper (the Benjamins).<p>During Covid, I know and heard of teachers who decided they just weren't getting paid enough for the conditions.<p>Already underpaid, they were then told to do additional things, including teach before a class of germ-factory children <i>without being allowed to wear a mask</i> when mask advisories were otherwise in effect. Or to take additional workload to teach both in-person and remote. Or, in the case of college lecturers and professors, to record video lectures that the school could reuse without them (video streaming is even cheaper than an adjunct).<p>It'd make sense to pay and treat teachers like the enormously important educators and nurturers of children that they are.<p>You can still get passion, but people saying <i>someone else should do work out of passion</i>... always sound like they're exploiting.