"Bad teachers can really damage students and are very very difficult to fire. Bad CEOs could put a..."

Jazmine A. comments on Conservative Think Tank Study Finds Teachers Are ‘Overpaid’ : The Two-Way : NPR

Bad teachers can do a lot of damage and are harder to fire than CEOs, but you’re going to lose a lot more money due to a bad CEO, no matter how quickly you shuttle him/her out of the position, than you will on a bad teacher, no matter how long he/she sticks around.

Good teachers may only improve the lives of 600, and a good CEO might be able to empower tens of thousands, but the CEO wouldn’t be able to do his/her job to begin with, if at some point he/she hadn’t encountered at least a few good teachers. And even if the CEO were brilliant, without a large, educated work force, he/she isn’t going to be able to accomplish that much all on their lonesome.