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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by adventured on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:33PM (#13294046)
Well here's the interesting thing, teachers in Finland are not making more than teachers in the US, and teachers in the US also get a long vacation. The US also has a similar pupil to teacher ratio as Finland.

https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/201...

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by pasiaj on Saturday December 31, 2016 @08:25PM (#13294195)
I believe strongly, that the important wage comparison is not between the Finnish teacher and the US teacher, but between the US teacher and the US MBA, and the Finnish teacher and the Finnish MBA.

In US a teacher makes about a third of what an MBA gets. In Finland the difference is an way smaller when you account for all the wealth transfers.

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