@hawkeye10,
Where did you get 60K for 9 months work from your link?
First of all nowhere is 60K the average. It is $56K and then it states average
annual salary not salary just for 9 months of teaching. Many teachers also work summers in a teaching capacity or have coaching jobs. Teaching is not just the time you spend in a classroom. We don't know what the numbers include. The interesting thing is you read the stats you posted and teachers are making a salary that is very similar to what they earned in the 1960s when adjusted for inflation. So your argument that they are making a ton of money is disproven by your own link.
I find it interesting how you continue to argue that teachers are the only profession with health care and a retirement package. Estimates I have seen state that the benefits package adds about 32% to the salary. $56K x 1.32 = $74K with benefits. Once again, not a ton of money.
Let's assume that teachers have $30K put away every year for retirement. (An idiotic suggestion by the way.) If we simply assume a return of 5% a year adjusted for inflation over their 30 year teaching career, that means they would retire after 30 years with an income in retirement that is at minimum double their salary.