{"id":63212,"date":"2025-10-06T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63212\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:18:09","slug":"teacher-burnout-and-stress-driving-exodus-from-irish-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63212\/","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.newsbeep.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":63213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[986,943,16179,25666,6466,2244,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-63212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-australia","tag-cost-of-living","tag-dcu","tag-deirdre-barry","tag-department-of-education","tag-eu","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}