@mer @kaia @arcana @naaksit @lucy @sun They already must have above average (not median) salaries (I think it's +10%) that increases every year required by law. That is not enough for them and they demand usually around 15% more every year.

The number of kids in classrooms has decreased by ~10 in ~12 years. There are not enough teachers, because many quit few years after dealing with extremely bratty kids while having zero options of dealing with them in any way. Parents of those kids obviously don't care about their kids behavior. Physical punishments have been banned decades ago and other forms of punishments are no longer effective.

And in classes where there aren't problematic kids, the quality has also decreased because teachers fear that giving bad grades to kids will harm them and get their parents angry. It used to be that every mistake I made in most test/exams would drop the grade by one excluding quarterly exams that were graded differently. Now it takes 3-4 mistakes to lower the grade. And it's already noticeable in public. Teenagers can barely do basic multiplication/division and have very little understanding of their first language.