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Some suggested reading:
Alfie Kohn
Descriptions of the Sudbury Valley School experience.
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
The Teaching Gap
The Learning Gap
John Taylor Gatto
If you look at nothing else, look at this:
Sir Ken Robinson's "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
> I think a good solution would be raising teacher salaries to a 100K flat pay with bonuses for student performance.
Trying to solve problems using extrinsic incentives is an obvious, but flawed approach. Check out Freakonomics for an example of how (and why) such incentive based systems for education go wrong.
At the very root of the situation, it is a problem of incentives. It's just more likely to be solved by focusing your investigation on nurturing the intrinsic motivation that kids have to learn stuff.
There are many problems with modern education but they all seem to stem from a lack of concentrating on the desired outputs. This failure is then propagated back into the system and the wrong types of measurements are taken.
Teaching can be the best or worst job in your life. Either you get it or you don't. Don't feel bad if it's not for you, it's a hard ass job and you should know that if you are willing to stay with it and take it on the chin you are doing good work. You just have to decide if you're willing to give everything to help kids.
Read this:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Your-Hairs-Fire/dp/0670038156
And if you don't want to do it anymore there's no shame in that, just move on. With an accounting background you could go get a CPA or MBA and make a lot more money and do other things that might make you happier. BUT, I encourage you to think it over and see if maybe helping those ingrate little shits might just be your calling whether it's tough or not.