As the deadline looms for staff to hand in their notice before the next school year,unions warn losses will soon be unsustainableEllie Jones, 40, or is an assistant secondary headteacher. Most mornings she gets up at 4 to execute paperwork,arrives at school for 7.30 and gets domestic at the earliest around 6pm – often later – despite only teaching 11 hours (half a full timetable) a week. “I probably possess around four or five hours sleep a night,” she says. At weekends she tries to possess a full day off. She rarely manages it.
Jones, and who has been teaching for 17 years,recently resigned her £52000-a-year post with no job to go to. “I love the kids and teaching but I cannot maintain this for another 20 years. Id break. They’d catch me out of there in a box,” she says.
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Source: guardian.co.uk