10.21.15 by msedblog Teacher Talk: ‘I hear of teachers crying on their kitchen floor because of the stress’ From TES: Teachers expect to work hard but should not be expected to devote every minute of their lives to their job, writes one union leader I was speaking recently at a joint ATL/NUT meeting on childhood and adolescent mental ill healthwhen I was silenced by a young man who told me that while he was very concerned about adolescent stress, he was even more worried about his partner, a primary school teacher. Increasingly, when he came home from work, he found her crying on the kitchen floor. Even more recently I heard of one young teacher who had, as a performance objective, the instruction that she must not cry in the staffroom. She did not know what to be more mortified about – that she had cried in the staffroom, or that her line manager could propose such an objective without any thought about what might cause her to cry in the first place. Share this:EmailPrintFacebookLinkedInRedditTwitterGoogleTumblrPinterestPocket
