well, my field of study is history. my undergrad BA is history and linguistics, my two masters degrees are in history and education administration, and i'm finishing my phd in education.
a teacher in my district with my level of education and time teaching starts at around $90k/year. plus, we have full benefits, tenure, pension on retirement.
at the local community college I would start around $55k---with substantially less benefits and much sketchier pension plan. in history, professorships in history are extremely competitive...and they involve the expectation of research and publishing--which just isn't for me, at least not at my current stage of life.
it all comes down to one's personal tastes. the notion though from the OP was that only someone who COULDN'T teach at college level would settle for teaching high school. That just isn't true. There are lots of good reasons why someone would stay teaching classes at a high school level instead of college.
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