LOL, many teachers are paid more than what they're worth (and teachers' unions do have something to do with that). The key difference between
those teachers and CEOs is not their desire to cheat people (including property taxpayers) out of their $$, but rather how
far they're willing to take that desire.
And as stated before, most CEOs get to where they are because of their persistence in fellating superiors. Contrary to the beliefs of limbaugh addicts, it seldom has anything to do with their competence in increasing shareholder value. Most CEOs (like AT & T's
Randall Stephenson) are incompetent buffoons that keep their jobs solely because of their prior success in building relationships with
other bigger schmoozers.
Teachers can do the same thing. A lazy young, sexy 23 y/o female second grade teacher can either screw around in class and make the salary her union won for her,
or she can apply for a job as a CEO's secretary. In the latter role, she can flirt w/the (married) CEO and then blackmail him to get millions of dollars.
Or she can work hard and teach. Some do, and while there is something to be said for that, it's harder to fatten the pocketbook that way.