Don't you think "tearing shit down" is more feasable when you're not trying to survive on the streets? Yeah, you have less time and energy, but you have more resources. It's easier to cool down when you have a roof over your head. Also yeah, all these situations you mentioned suck emensly, but how would, let's say, that teacher's life improve if she left her job and lived on the street with her kids. if her students had one less teacher?
Contextually speaking in the USA most teachers are not paid to educate - they are babysitters with student loans. This was essentially proven with the gusto behind sending kids back to school during the pandemic. Absolutely no concern was shown for the safety and wellbeing of the teachers.
Teachers are one of the most criminally underpaid and underappreciated professions out there - (alongside sanitation workers fwiw) - and a mass exodus of teachers from public schools would literally grind this country to a halt since the vast majority of parents cannot afford accommodations for their own children.
Few things would make the absurdity of our work-life dynamic more apparent than a complete shutdown of the public school system. It's not like the kids are missing out on much with the absence of the propaganda apparatus we call a school system.
Get the kids involved with pertinent tasks. Develop community programs, clean up the roadsides, plant some trees, encourage learning via literally any other method than sitting in a cramped prison room for an entire workday repeating "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."
Tearing shit down as a teacher means rejecting an education system which has been proven counterproductive to the health and wellbeing of those children. It means creating new scientifically informed alternatives without giving a fuck what the government thinks.
