To b or not to b: is teacher workload and wellbeing a thing?
It is all well and good to sit back and relax. Take a load off. Chill. Finding the balance between work and family life is important. But, I think it is rather more than 'balancing' workload alongside family life. It comes down to one thing. Are you happy? For some people out there, they are not happy unless they are going 100 miles per hour. Not in a car, but instead, working above 'the limit'. As such, we have been institutionalised as a society (it feels) that working 9 till 5 (Thank you Dolly) or the school hours (I mean... teachers only work between 9 and 3, right? Erm...) is the norm. That's the job and that's the limit. So what is that limit? Well, I am sorry to tell you that working x amount hours is not the limit. Working your contracted hours per day or week is also not the limit. Finding balance for each and everyone one of us in employment is not the job of the employer. Some people do not even like their job. Some do not even like to work. Some pe...