Not if you want a stress free life!

[DontDoIt87]

Teaching today is manic. You also, at a classroom level, have little say, sway or influence. It is deeply frustrating. Good teachers are leaving en mass. If you left a career in law due to stress, this will be no better. It is all encompassing. I used to always recommend my profession. Not any more

I feel really sad for teachers, frightened too. I have 1DC in his first year at school, his teacher is wonderful. I often wonder how high school teachers are managing now, I remember my teacher being a safe person and an authority figure. When I went to school, it was a safe environment. The extra work, the fear of violence and verbal abuse and additional stress for teachers these days isn’t worth the very shit pay.

I am an employment lawyer, representing public sector workers. My greatest sympathy lies with teachers, even though many parts of the public sector are challenging places in which to work. The extremely low calibre of management in education is shocking.

I feel like an ioooker in my own.professional.life now. The enthusiasm for teaching is being diminished by BS SLT initiatives, denial about behaviour issues, indiscipline, young ones with no life experience being promoted and proving yo be .inept and excessive workload. Let's not forget the erosion of tutor time. Now it difficult yo build up.a rapport with your tutor group because there is allways something to deliver. I'm going early. It's all too much.