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‘Breaking point’: Principal’s wellbeing at an all-time low
The number of principals wanting to quit or retire early has tripled since 2019, with teacher shortages, heavy workloads and lack of time as sources of stress for school leaders, a new survey shows.
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Well if the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan is targeting principal’s wellbeing by reducing their administrative workload by 20%, I’m left wondering what programs might be implemented by this plan to reduce stress and workload for classroom teachers such as myself.
I will have been teaching for fifty years by the end of this year and I couldn’t recommend teaching as a career to any of my students. Work intensification has been an issue for the best part of thirty years, but as a profession we are too weak to address the problem.