Comment by tokenadult

But the policy point is that what happens now is that people are attracted into teaching who value job security far more than most start-up-founding hackers value job security, and who value being accountable for demonstrable results far less than most other people in professional occupations. What you call "their long-held rights" (tenure and other job protections granted by state statute) is precisely what makes the occupation of teaching so different from most other occupations.