[aianus]

> This is true of all subjects, though.

No, it's not. You're not going to do better with your English degree than English teacher so there's no disincentive to becoming one. Hence, students get reasonably competent English teachers.

High School CS teachers, on the other hand, have to be completely incompetent or insane to choose to teach for $40k when they could be writing CRUD apps for $100k.

[RhysU]

Ah, but that $100K will last for but one generation as the market is flooded with students that can write CRUD applications.

[eli_gottlieb]

I write firmware for $90k and I'm insane enough to have always wanted to be a teacher.

[selimthegrim]

Now I'm imagining what "Firmware Madness" would be as a fear mongering video to scare kids away from writing firmware.