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Depends on "why" they were chosen. If you want to base it on actually teaching something useful... some were definitely bad. However, if you base it on teaching some life lessons for Harry and monitor how the experiences change him. Believe most choices make for a compelling movie... err, mean a good story... and a far better way to learn and teach students about real world things that the standard curriculum wouldn't handle.

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Best he could do because the pay sucks and they get shit on by the Ministry of Magic constantly.

Well, it was only the defence position (and potions) that was terrible, everything else was fine. Also care for magical creatures wasn't great as well I guess. He had no choice but to keep Snape in potions, and as for defence there was nothing he could do, the job was jinxed. He did hire great teachers, Lupin, Barty Crouch Jr, even Snape.

The only questionable choice he made was Lockhart. He had no part in Umbridge's employment and as for Snape while he was unpleasant he was a competent teacher. We have no mention of how Quirell taught so I won't include him here.

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He probably hired him because he was fed up with Lockhart's bullshit and wanted something bad to happen to him