“Why shouldn’t this model…
“Why shouldn’t this model be extended to teachers? Why shouldn’t schools be co-operatives/partnerships of teachers who compete against each other?”
They used to have these things in Europe; I believe they were called “Universities.”
The multiple layers of administrative bureaucracy that have piled themselves up on the shoulders of scholars are a relatively new “innovation,” which grew like a tumor and metastasized throughout the world mostly over the course of the late 19th and early 20th century.