Overwhelming Teacher Workload Causing Severe Mental Health Crisis and Career Regret
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teacher workloadmental healthteacher burnoutretention
Summary
Teachers face an unsustainable workload with endless hours of lesson planning, grading, and non-instructional duties, leading to severe stress, burnout, and mental health crises including suicidal ideation. The profession offers little systemic support, and no effective solutions exist to reduce workloads or provide adequate mental health care, causing talented educators to leave and suffer from regret and despair.
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