in the flemish community there are indications that there is some inequitable distribution of teachers across schools with the most experienced teachers typically employed in the least challenging schools according to talis data while of lower secondary teachers worked in schools with more than of students coming from disadvantaged home backgrounds this was the case for of beginning teachers ie teachers with years teaching experience or less in countries and economies found at the top of this figure with positive differences experienced teachers are more likely to be working in schools with high proportions of students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds figure shows that for a majority of countries however the opposite is true