{"id":104820,"date":"2025-10-06T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104820\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:31:09","slug":"teacher-burnout-and-stress-driving-exodus-from-irish-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104820\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher burnout and stress driving exodus from Irish classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Bad pay and bigger asks from parents are other factors driving young educators from our schools for careers with better work-life balance \u2013 at a time when over 1,800 teaching posts remain unfilled\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sin\u00e9ad Fitzpatrick worked as a teacher for 17 years before changing career\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1ef15ea1-8128-4210-a5ce-471ea3bdeb8d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sin\u00e9ad Fitzpatrick worked as a teacher for 17 years before changing career<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Teacher burnout is driving an exodus from the profession \u2013 with a large number struggling to cope with the demands of their job, which is impacting their mental health and overall well-being, a recent study shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Researchers at Dublin City \u00adUniversity (DCU) in April found that 86pc of the teachers were suffering from burnout, with 28pc rating their mental health as poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad pay and bigger asks from parents are other factors driving young educators from our schools for careers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1128,9,10,2190,8531,50794,13264,18,4893,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-104820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cost-of-living","12":"tag-dcu","13":"tag-deirdre-barry","14":"tag-department-of-education","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-featured-news","18":"tag-featurednews","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}