You don't take up for teachers any more than others do. In fact your denigration of teachers and your denigration of Dems (in the face of the fact
that teachers support Dems more than Repubs) in your contradictory ways overrides any small effort you make to highlight teachers problems.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”