The results of the recent poll investigating teachers’ morale came as no surprise to me. It was something that I had been discussing just before Christmas with fellow heads from both the state and independent sector, when we met socially.
We agreed that teachers generally were feeling pretty powerless and undermined in the face of constant change and criticism, although, inevitably, this was far more strongly felt by state school colleagues.
Staffroom morale in some schools had never seemed lower, not helped by the issues over GCSE English results and the less well-publicised similar changes to boundaries in some modular GCSE mathematics examinations.
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