Most teachers do not make 97k/year in WA, even including benefits. It's easy to google public information.
Secondly, please come back to me and tell me teachers are paid too much after you teach for just one week...
Get to work early, carefully plan lessons for the day, and wait for the kids to come in (if you're not assigned to morning recess duty). Depending on the school you're at, maybe you'll be able to get them to sit in their spots. Or maybe they haven't eaten breakfast and come from a broken home. But its okay, you're a magical teacher - you can get them to focus while malnourished, dealing with divorcing parents, and siblings in a gang. They totally care about your math class right now. Being the good guy you are, you care deeply about their well-being in the shitty situation they're born into. You do everything you can to engage them. You try to call home and figure out what's going on from the one parent. No response. You teach a few classes, lunch time comes around, and during your lunch you are supervising lunch detention. You hope you have time to both run to a microwave AND take a shit. Those are the good work days. Your prep period is spent emailing parents and making a few last minute copies. Next period another troubled kid you're trying desperately to help out tells you to suck his ass and throws your coffee mug across the room, claiming you are some kind of "satanist faggot." You try calling the principal, but of course the shitty 1980s phone is broken so you step outside to see if there's an adult around to help you remove the kid from the class. No one to be seen. "Gee, it would be nice is someone could help clean this coffee up..." nah, nobody around to help with that at the moment either. Alright, calm the rest of the class down and get them "learning again." Outburst kid is wandering the halls now I guess. Of course a quick recovery getting the 6th graders to calm down and get back on track after that performance. Now school's over and you have 4 classes worth of tests to grade, several parents to call to check in with behavior, and are given a little under an hour to do it on the clock. You'd like to do some work on at least one of your classes' longterm curriculum and get a few lesson plans ahead of the game. Let's see how these parent interactions go. You call a parent, who agrees that you should "suck their ass" and that you're not doing your job if you can't control their kid. Time to help them with their homework? Nope, "I work 6 days a week and hardly see them." Maybe censor what they see on the internet a bit so they aren't explaining the meaning of self-anal-fisting to their peers, who's angry parents you dealt with only yesterday for an extra hour beyond your paid work day? Nah, no time to help you out, teach. Alright, you know... you can only help so much in a day and you need to protect your own mental health. Don't get too emotionally charged up. You need to do it again tomorrow. Call it a day. Get home. Go on Facebook reddit group. Meet an ass hole that tells you you're paid too much. Resist urge to rant about it (jk). Go to sleep. Get to work early tomorrow.