Oh please, my son’s nasty 3rd grade public school teacher was making 150K per year. It’s not like Finland is the only country overpaying teachers. I would be interested in how many hours per year those teachers in Finland work. Most of my children’s teachers either have a side business or work all summer in another job.
Some teachers are horrible, but when it comes to sports and performing arts, it’s really hard to tell without outside corroboration of your child’s talent. That happened with my son, so although HS sports should have been a huge opportunity for him, he had to find opportunities elsewhere. And everything worked out fine for his sports career.
There were two teachers who I was happy to see the obituaries for. Pedophilia for one (and moved to our district after knocking up a student in the adjoining town’s HS) and daily verbal abuse of many people, including me and my brother, for another.
There were many teachers especially at the K - 8 level who were very good, and a few were great. It seemed like HS was more pot luck, both of the evil teachers were HS teachers, coincidentally both science.
I know there would have been a few other teachers who weren’t evil but just weren’t good for kids. Like the guy who threw chalk at kids, and sometimes didn’t miss. Or the guy who wouldn’t allow any athletes into the National Honor Society.