Summary
There has been a major rise in the amount of teachers leaving education, because of the sharply risen amounts of stress teachers are subject to. 41.5% of teachers report themselves as highly stressed. The rise in work-related stress is mainly because of the pressure teachers are put under to meet government education targets. While measures to lower the teachers’ workload have been attempted, teachers are still very often faced with a 50-hour work week or longer. Much of this work does not involve teaching, but instead a lot of time is wasted on unnecessary bureaucratic procedures and other time consuming redundant formalities.
Reaction
I think that the UK government should realize the importance of education. First of all, work should be done in order to cut down the bureaucracy teachers are faced with. Emphasis should be put back on teaching, which will not only decrease the teacher’s workload, but it will also improve the quality of education. It is unacceptable that teachers are being subject to this much stress, because they have one of the most important tasks of all: educating and shaping the new generation of people. As long as teachers are faced with this much stress, teaching will remain an unpopular career choice and the schools will start to lack good teachers.
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