Yangsun you are the first secondary. THANK YOU!!!
We are also an 'outstanding' school, towards top of all league tables, but terrible morale, lots of staff leaving. No trust, maximum micromanagement, huge levels of stress.
Like the others, I would basically like the job I had about 7 years ago, when I could keep the out-of-hours work to the same number of evenings as the days I worked.
I am exhausted, and can not be the teacher I would like to be at the moment. It is ridiculous that we are in a situation where outstanding teachers, with outstanding results are made to feel like that. I cried in the car on the way to work this morning.
While the new initiatives are supposed to improve lessons/results etc, it is leaving teachers with no energy or time to plan and teach the dynamic and innovative lessons we would like to teach.
When I went out on Strike last term, it was purely for the 'unsustainable increases in workload'. I fear for the education of my kids who are all in primary school.
And to that end I am campaigning to improve things.
It concerns me enormously that non-teaching parents often hold teachers in contempt. It would seem to me that all parents should be campaigning to improve the lot of teachers, after all we spend 6+ hours a day with their children! Surely everyone wants energised enthusiastic teachers.
Sorry for turning a straw poll into a rant!