Not a teacher here, just curious- what is it about your professions that are making you feel this way? Is it the expectations and demands placed upon you, the environment you work in, the students?
Most students are lovely, you get some tricky ones, but generally day to day the kids are fine. What makes it hard are the following things:
Lack of support-so you have a difficult pupil and deal with a situation, and then SLT undermine you, meaning that you lose face/respect meaning discipline becomes harder
Never ending requests for data, often at short notice, in a different format to what you have previously provided, with little guidance as to what you need to provide.
Constant CONSTANT observation and criticism and questioning of what you are doing ALL THE TIME. Onus has moved from learning being the pupils’ responsibility to entirely the teachers’.
Teachers are expected to do more all the time and be responsible for more. That BBC programme ‘school’ talked about this. Budgets for everything have been slashed and pupils have more and more complex needs. Teachers want to help pupils but do not have the time or resources to do so effectively. This is unbelievably stressful when you feel that you cannot do your best.
Safeguarding responsibilities-we take this so seriously and there’s always the worry that you’ll miss something important and put a child at risk.