Two things happened while I was in school for education (early childhood) one, there was a rumor that California was proposing to jack up preschool teacher salaries into the six figures, but also requiring graduate degrees...I wonder what happened to that idea (lol)...also, from as young as elementary school, hiring professionals to teach in a given field (as opposed to teachers) ie actual scientists to teach science, historians to teach history etc. My college Astronomy teacher was one of the editors for Sky and Telescope Magazine, a brilliant guy, and I mean brilliant, unfortunately he couldn't teach worth a damn, which was good for me because I was hired as a tutor to explain his lessons (in understandable terms) to the other teachers who thought the class would be an easy one, that one didn't really work either, but seemed like a great idea at the time (lol again)