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Stress is driving increasing numbers of teachers out of the profession, with
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2023-09-06
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Stress is driving increasing numbers of teachers out of the profession, with some even considering suicide, a teaching union conference heard on Monday.
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference in Harrogate heard there had been a "meteoric (迅速的)" rise in work-related stress due to demands to meet government targets.
Research by the Health and Safety Executive in 2000 found teaching to be the most stressful profession, with 41.5% of teachers reporting themselves as "highly stressed".
Sue McMahon, a delegate from Calderdale, West Yorkshire, said: "As a divisional secretary, I have seen a meteoric rise in work-related stress and on more than one occasion have had to support a member who has attempted suicide.
"This ... is due to the demands being placed on our members to hit government targets."
She said a "target tsunami" from government is "sweeping away those [teachers] that you are struggling to support".
The NUT is concerned that an increase in form-filling has driven up teachers’ workloads.
The union passed two resolutions, calling for the union to support victims of work stress and for the Health and Safety Executive to intervene in schools where employers do not carry out assessments of the risk of stress.
Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: "Despite measures to reduce teachers’ workload, we still have the unacceptable situation of many classroom teachers, heads and deputies working in excess of 50 hours a week. With no limit to the working week, the long hours continue to take their toll on teachers’ health and their lives outside work.
"Much of this time is spent on tasks which have little to do with teaching and learning, but are instead generated by unnecessary bureaucratic procedures which have become the bane (祸根) of teachers’ lives."
Reducing the burden of planning and assessment on teachers would help reduce the workload of school staff, Blower said. "In too many schools, planning and assessment requirements have become formulaic burdens which simply waste teachers’ time."
John Illingworth from Nottingham told delegates the number of stress-related suicides among teachers is "low but significant". "Stress-related illness is widespread, affecting thousands of teachers each year. It is more likely to end a teacher’s career than any other cause," he said.
Peter Harvey — the teacher who was given a community order after beating a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell — warned last year that "lots of teachers are ticking time bombs" because of stress in schools. In an interview, Harvey said: "I know teachers who, because of stress, can’t hold a cup of coffee or are too frightened to cross the road." [br] Christine Blower held that the long hours of work______.
选项
A、were an essential requirement of the society
B、had a very bad effect on teachers health
C、were necessary for teaching and learning
D、were acceptable to many classroom teachers
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的Christine Blower和the long hours将本题出处定位到第九段末句。该句提到,由于对工作周没有限制,长时间的工作继续损害着教师的健康和工作外的生活。由此可见,长时间的工作对教师的健康有坏的影响,故答案为[B]。[A]“是社会必须的要求”在文中未提到。[C]与第十段首句提到的Much of this time is spent on tasks which have little to do with teaching and learning矛盾,故排除。[D]的信息与该段首句中的still have the unacceptable situation相反,故排除。
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