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If you’re a teacher you’ve probably long suffered people claiming you have an easy job. “They’re only kids”, “You get so many holidays” and of course the gem of “You only work until 3.30pm!” have all rung in the ears of teachers who then have to explain why it isn’t the ticket to an easy working life.

Well, research is now showing how teachers can have to work more than 400 hours extra per year without pay, just to get their job done. Reasons for this range from too much paperwork to classes with too many students, but the end result is the same: a lot of teachers who feel they are being taken advantage of.

While this is nothing new, hopefully more surveys of the industry will show that change must come about – after all, what good is a teacher who is too exhausted to teach?