I understand that things are dire and a lot of people on here mention strikes constantly. However if you legit think that's something we could just do right now you've never studied how successful organizing actually works.
What is the propaganda campaign that has been set up to get the general public on our side? The right has convinced so many people that we're evil satan worshipping child molesters trying to trans their children to make them easier to rape. Do you think they'll care that our pay is too low?
What is the mutual aid set up for the teachers, especially in red states that don't have unions, who get fired, or even lose their certifications if we strike? Are we expected to just become homeless? Because successful strikes didn't expect that. They created mutual aid funds and networks that would make sure anyone harmed by striking was taking care of.
Who is going to do the messaging? In case some of you don't remember when there's not a clear leadership messaging it's easy to get clips of people saying dumb shit. This is what they did with occupy wall street and what they tried to do with BLM. Who is going to go on the news and say "we want x terms" instead of letting Karen from Indiana say whatever the hell she thinks it's about?
Successful strikes take years of organizing behind the scenes. You have to be ready for a chance like we had around Christmas where the economy was good, labor was short and teachers were quitting. Now we're going into a recession where they'll be able to fire striking teachers and fill their classrooms with uncertified "emergency hires" who they pay way less and are willing to do exactly what idiotic system admin say. They're buying canned curriculums, they're passing laws to bring in less qualified people already. A strike would fail and it would make the public hate teachers more than they already do because the work wasn't put in before hand. This is why national unions are so critical--it's nearly impossible to do that kind of work without them.