An Aussie teacher living in the United Kingdom has quit the profession and is moving back home for heartbreaking reasons.<\/p>\n
Alice Scholz recently went viral for her fly-on-the-wall reels on the reality of what its like to live in a UK high street, revealing everything from wild nights out, arrests and surprise snowfall, but behind the hilarious montage is the sad reality that Ms Scholz is moving back to Australia after the UK teaching system broke her.<\/p>\n
Since quitting teaching, Ms Scholz has been documenting her journey online as she prepares to return to Australia. Despite spending more than $32,000 on UK visas and embracing the country\u2019s history and travel opportunities, she explained that the teaching environment ultimately drove her decision to leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cUp until recently I was a teacher and I went into education at 21-years-old because I knew it\u2019s what I wanted to do. I love working with children, I know I can make a difference,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI literally gave this profession everything, I gave it my time, my energy, and my mental health, and for the longest time I kind of convinced myself that the struggle was because I just wasn\u2019t trying hard enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old, who\u2019s been living in Windsor, explained that there were many reasons why she turned her back on teaching, but a huge factor was the verbal and physical abuse she was experiencing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI left for many reasons, one of them was because it was turning me into someone that I wasn\u2019t. It was the constant stress, it was the lack of support and it was the abuse. I, like many other teachers, experienced verbal abuse from parents and from students. And like many other teachers as well, I experienced physical abuse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n