The heat has made things worse.
kids are extremely tired at work - staff are too. Early light mornings and light at night always causes this.
schools are phenomenally stretched funding wise. They’re loosing the sports funding. Teacher pay is increasing but most from school budgets. A send crisis is in full swing. Yes falling numbers but more have send.
We have the Covid gen coming through school. We now know that Lockdowns worsened executive function skills for all children, especially those who started reception in 2019 and 2020. So children born around 2015 and a few years before and after have been badly affected by this. Many will be chasing diagnosis; it won’t help as there’s no funding to do any more than what is there already. Some will have always been autistic or adhd. But a few are likely to have been severely affected by what happened around lockdown time, especially if trauma or abuse was a feature. Plus over reliance on screens during that time and since.
locally police are contacting schools to remind children and parents that taking and sharing on phones can be a crime . Afaik there’s been a number of serious incidents lately.
All this is causing extreme stresses if you work in education or have kids this age.