>How much of this is the outward expression of the fact that teachers still
>get paid much as they were a generation ago when they were women who
>couldn't get into better paying professions? How much of this "decline" in
>the quality of teachers is the result of feminism's having opened those
>door?
You're not thinking like an economist. If teachers' relative pay has declined, it can only be because their productivity has also declined. People get paid according to their marginal product, because, well, just because.
Doug