My sentiment exactly: childcare needn't be that expensive or highly skilled, and therefore teachers needn't be (and generally are not) highly skilled either.
They don't command high salaries because pretty much any responsible adult with minimal skills can do a passable job of what we consider to be passable teaching.
It's not that GPT4 is a great teacher or great teaching aid (although it's not bad). It's that a classroom teacher with 30 students in a room, rattling off that week's geography unit, might as well not be there, except as a run-of-the-mill babysitter.
They don't command high salaries because pretty much any responsible adult with minimal skills can do a passable job of what we consider to be passable teaching.
It's not that GPT4 is a great teacher or great teaching aid (although it's not bad). It's that a classroom teacher with 30 students in a room, rattling off that week's geography unit, might as well not be there, except as a run-of-the-mill babysitter.