Miritchka – you said it perfectly!!!
Shmoel – First, you don’t know how much I make in my office job – so don’t assume I make more than a Rebbe or Morah (and I certainly work longer hours). Second, they chose this profession – if they don’t like it leave or go teach in a more modern day school where salaries are higher and the pay is on time. If you are a teaher/rebbe beacuse of the days off you are in the wrong profession.
The entire school system needs to be revamped to reflect today’s realities, not modeled on the way it was in the shtetl 100 years ago.