1. I worked for the govt and now I'm in the private sector, while the govt pay was shit the retirement was awesome and that is what kept me at that job for 5 years. I made up the 90%, but i feel that its pretty accurate seeing how STERS, SERS, OPERS works alone makes the govt retirement better than almost any corp.
also it is very easy for a state employee to retire after 30 years and be comfortable with their retirement, my dad has been working for 35 years and won't be able to retire for at least another 5-7 due to his 401k taking a dump and social security taking a crap as well.
2. I love my job and I'm compensated very well for what i do. Again, I'm just playing devil's advocate. I firmly believe teachers are underpaid for the amount of time they have to put in and all the teachers i know also put a lot of their own money into the school systems to help the children learn better.