u/VanCliefMedia

I run my own community where I teach software and business, most teaching content is free but I charge a small monthly fee for in person sessions and extra resources.

My mother is a teacher for a virtual school and I told her that if she took most of her lessons, structures and ideas and posted them online into a singlely focused place and simply charged a few dollars per month per person, you could get a few thousand people to pay that and make significantly more than what the schools are paying them.

Getting accredited and certified for homeschooling just amplifies that even more.

I think teachers should be paid significantly more as they are generating a massive amount of IP and doing so much amazing work but the school system and education system in the US is not designed to compensate them fairly.

EDIT: It's important to understand that salaries are paid based on the amount of value you're giving the company minus whatever they need to make in profit, which means they're making more off of you than they're paying you. So if you were to go and do that thing yourself be that as a freelancer or start your own company where you got a group of people together that does that. One thing most of the time you can get the same if not more salary. Obviously there's different jobs and places where that maybe is much more challenging because of economies of scale and what not. But at the end of the day, convincing a group of people to spend as much as a coffee a month on you is not as challenging as you think. It's not easy, but it's definitely doable, especially when you compare it to how much you're working in your current job.