There is a limit

[monkeysox]

I have reached it. I'm so finished with this shit.

SLT may well be under pressure, but there is a way and means of dealing with people. I am at 4 years. I will do 5 but that's my limit.

I hear you. I jacked it in 3rd week back. No idea if I'll ever teach again. I feel lost but free. Roll on Christmas.

I totally agree with you needsahalo. I have worked in a lot of different places and never been spoken to like a naughty child. SLT need to value their staff

I was a teacher pre kids but haven't.a clue how to jump into a different profession easily now I want to return to work.

I'm not a teacher, DH is, this came up on my active, and what a sad three to read or fit all of you, I couldn't do it.

I got to the end of today and keeled over in my classroom, literally passed out. Small class but massive needs and no help. It will finish me if I stay.

:( so sad :(

I'm not a teacher. I stumbled on here by mistake.
I really hope none of you are at any of my kids schools. I love their schools and teachers. They all work so hard and seem to genuinely love all of the kids. To think any of you are this low is heartbreaking. My girls are doing so well because of good teachers and we'd be lost without you. I've just started as a parent helper and am genuinely loving it. I can see how draining it must be though. I think I'll up my hours though. If I'm an additional resource that doesn't drain the money pot surely that is a help??!?!
Hugs and flowers to you all. (Totally not patronising).
And bah humbugs to the governmental piss-pots that give you endless red tape and shit that stops you enjoying what should be a lovely job x

Gutted to hear it's no better in Scotland, that was my get out plan. I love my job, but I am exhausted. Emotionally as much as anything else. Perhaps Wales...?!

Also, thank you Ricks. Governmental piss-pots rather sums it up, sadly.

Thanks for the reply Danyella.
I'm now at the point where although I love the thought of being a teacher, and have loved the - small - classroom experience I have had, I just don't think it would be wise to enter teaching right now. I'm in Scotland and I thought it wasn't so bad up here but I'm fast learning otherwise. I am a bit devastated and totally lost as to where to go next with my undergrad degree. Nothing else speaks to me as much as teaching has.
I don't have any dc yet, but will be going through IVF in a few years after much wedding and I don't think I could go through that process while being a teacher.
I'm only mid 20's right now so hoping in years to come I could maybe look at picking up teaching again if education improves.

Robindeer We don't have the National Curriculum in Scotland but have Curriculum for Excellence which imho is an ill-thought-out rambling mess which was rushed into schools.

I don't think we have quite so much shit to put up with as in England (that's my experience anyway) and I've never had to do break or lunch duties, but the EIS union in very strong and I think it helps that the majority of teachers belong to it.

There are some kids who are genuinely "vile creatures" they swear at me, have zero respect and wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire.

Awful to say, yes. Probably not their fault as they're bring dragged up, yes. Still vile and impossible to deal with.

I got out at the end of summer term. I was well and truly broken.

Managed to get a job doing education outreach for industry... and cannot believe how lucky I am and how I let things get so bad before I jumped.

Yes, there are some schools with supportive SLTs who don't grind down their staff, but they are the minority. No one should be in a job that reduces them to tears daily and makes them ill.

There are other jobs out there! Go for it. Make escape plans. Dig tunnels. Look after yourselves :-)

I left the teaching profession nearly 2 years ago. After 20 years of doing a busy, demanding job I thrived on, like the OP, I reached my limit. Something inside me had snapped and I couldn't ignore it.

I decided to apply for jobs at other schools, but, after withdrawing 4 applications realised I wasn't going to resolve my problem by going to another school.

I felt it wasn't fair to teach children if I was feeling so switched off, so I decided to do some supply work while i planned how i leave the profession .

Sorry, posted before I was ready!

So, while on supply, I decided to turn a hobby/interest into a business. So now I work for myself from home.

This has miraculously worked out for the best as I can choose my own hours and am always there to walk my children to & from school. I have a similar disposable income to before too.

I hugely admire anyone who is still in teaching. I literally do not know how anyone does it nowadays.

So fucking glad I'm teaching In Australia now, after 27 in the UK. It was turning to shit when I left, but oh my.

Thirty-eight years and still up for it.

Why isn't it as bad here?

1. The union saw off the inspectorate. ( Note the singular noun)
2. Aussie government: piss-up and brewery spring to mind.