Fundamentally, a Rebbe should not get paid at all for teaching Torah. The ability to charge for teaching Torah requires a “workaround”, that the Rebbe is getting paid NOT for teaching but for babysitting. Therefore, the focus shifts. Yes, he is a dedicated Rebbe and teaches excellently, but we don’t pay him for that…his entire premise for compensation is his babysitting labor, which we don;t value very much. That puts a Rebbe in a different category then the janitor, electric company or administrator – there we know what we are paying for and we value that work. This becomes magnified when funds are scarce. We pay essential services. Babysitting is not such an essential service.
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