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@Thinkingschool2 Not to mention the mental health till it takes.... Utterly broke my wife. Me and the kids are just so lucky to have her still

The amount of unpaid/voluntary hours that teaching staff do in schools is incredible. This has to be linked to the problems the profession faces with staff retention.

@ShakinthatChalk And 100% pay alone will not fix this.

@ShakinthatChalk Please take care of yourselves teachers. My wife had a full breakdown about 3 years ago after being a teacher for 14+ years. Totally broke her. 3 suicide attempts many years of depression, utter devastation to our family, she's still very lost due to also losing her loved career

My ECT has had enough. Very promising competent teacher but sees no future in teaching long term & wants out. Not a problem schools can fix its a systemic issue across the sector. Without top down reform of teacher (and pupil) working conditions teaching is increasingly lost.

@Dotmay47 @johncosgrove405 Thanks John I just get so angry that they just don't get it. And all the talk of wages etc are almost irrelevant when your MH and physical health is destroyed. She's not currently ill IE the NHS has dropped her but she's unable to work or properly function. Baby steps I guess🤞

@Dotmay47 @johncosgrove405 Please take care of yourself Tilly. My wife had a full breakdown about 3 years ago after being a teacher for 14+ years. Totally broke her. 3 suicide attempts many years of depression, utter devastation to our family, she's still very lost due to also losing her career she loved

This is such a depressing read. Martyn Oliver has learnt nothing and proposes to change absolutely as little as he can get away with. "Raising the bar for standards" is a euphemism for "bullying will resume as before." Oh and ... schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-chief-i…

People can be struggling with their mental health even if… - They laugh and smile a lot - They look out together - They have a caring family - They have dreams and goals - They have a career - They don’t have a diagnosis or take medication - They say positive things

@RogersHistory I'll have to remind myself of this when I think of nearly losing my wife to suicide and the messed up 2+ years after her mental breakdown that damn near destroyed the family including her mum's health. And no she was 14 years in before it happened and didn't think it would be her

Christ.

@branwenjeffreys My wife had a full mental breakdown including several suicide attempts and ended up on crisis team books. Been a couple of years and is still very broken. Unable to work or properly function in the family and daughter stepping in to help

Earlier today the new Education Secretary said teachers were leaving in droves - I'm interested to hear your stories of why - and what you went on to do

@krcs_education Total scam

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@ashleigh_pain You have to say no guys it's really not worth it. My wife had a complete break down nearly 2 years ago now followed by suicide attempts, clinical depression and is now still very broken. Please look after yourselves.....no one else is guys😕

@RogersHistory My wife used to really really struggle on Sunday's (sadly the kids named it psycho Sunday 😞) anxiety around return to school on Monday

This may not be a thing, but if you struggle with mental health, what is your worst day of the week for it? Historically (and weirdly) for me it’s more often been wknds than weekdays.

@MindCharity Yes utter rubbish my wife's been drifting for ages with no plans or help in sight....

The government say they want to help people with mental health problems get back into work. If so, they need to be serious about investing in chronically underfunded mental health services. And they need to meet with the experts. We await the full details of the consultation. 3/3

Millions of people are struggling with their mental health right now. Taking away crucial financial support is not going to fix the problem - it will only make this worse. 2/3

@irumidk Wife had this too and also periods where she was too ill for some not ill enough for others hence left with nothing. Seems to be no real plan or resourcing to get people back to some form of good MH just maintaining non crisis. Such a bloody waste

It boils my piss that that people eligible for primary care Talking Therapies services (IAPT) can access therapies like EMDR and couples therapy whereas people who are too high risk/complex/unwell are left to broken CMHT’s where the vast majority of pts have no access to >

@UnofficialOA This has to become the norm before large numbers of teachers burnout like my wife. It's just not sustainable and too many others are also getting hurt

Every Gen Z teacher I speak to unabashedly prioritises their well-being in a way that was unheard of when I started and I absolutely love them for it. #edutwitter

@andylutwyche @MrRobHistory True but you are still covered by health and safety as well as slavery laws and this has to change at some point. Teaching made my wife very very unwell and we nearly lost her

@MrRobHistory The issue is the teaching contract which states that you need to put in sufficient hours to do the job to a good standard, or words to that effect. It essentially means that non-directed time spent on school work is potentially infinite!

Teachers please remember that 35 hours a week is our contract. It's a limit not a suggestion.

Why is the focus of strike action on pay? Yes it’s important, but that’s not what is causing teacher burnout: high levels of stress, inspection workload and increasing challenges from behaviour are all such high contributors. Why aren’t the @NEUnion strikes about conditions?

@waterssarah56 Unfortunately I think it's a major issue with teaching in the UK. It's one of the things that upsets me with the trend towards saying about better pay (which is also needed) but this isn't the biggest issue. Teachers look after yourselves as one day you might break too

@a30679929 Very sorry to hear this. Terrible that such difficulties go unacknowledged and unaddressed

Teacher suicides are treated as personal and unrelated tragedies by UK regulator. They are not officially recorded, investigated or prevented. Let's start there. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Unpaid overtime is harming teachers' wellbeing and is ‘a key factor in fuelling the severe recruitment and retention crisis’, says @PaulWhiteman6 commenting on a new report tes.com/magazine/news/…