{"id":44242,"date":"2025-09-26T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44242\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:11:10","slug":"burnt-out-and-stressed-experts-warn-teachers-are-in-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44242\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt out and stressed &#8211; Experts warn teachers are in a crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Teachers are sounding the alarm, not over curriculum, but their own emotional well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn the profession is in crisis, with growing burnout, rising stress, and teachers leaving the job in droves.<\/p>\n<p>READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/spiralling-school-violence-disrupts-learning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spiralling school violence disrupts learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teachers are being stretched, juggling admin loads, overcrowded classrooms and poor discipline, with little support.<\/p>\n<p>Many are overworked, emotionally drained, and suffering from anxiety or depression, while still being expected to carry the future of the country on their shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>To unpack this further, eNCA spoke to Dr Marelize Vergottini a senior lecturer in Social Work at Northwest University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Teachers are sounding the alarm, not over curriculum, but their own emotional well-being. Experts warn the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-44242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}