Badly behaved pupils are forcing teachers out of the profession as a report finds three quarters would quit if they could find a new job with a better work-life balance.
A “crisis in staff room morale” has been fuelled by soaring apathy and aggression among students, helping to push tens of thousands of teachers prematurely out of their careers, according to the Commission on Teacher Retention, conducted by Public First, a think tank.
This “worsening” behaviour and “decline in respect for teachers”, which experts believe has been sparked by long periods away from the classroom during the pandemic, has heightened the “intensity and pressure” of teachers’ workload. Female teachers said they felt “threatened” by “misogyny from male pupils influenced by toxic role models on social media.
