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American Federation of Teachers Union Survey Finds 7 Out Of 10 Teachers Are Stressed
A new online survey by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has sparked concern that stressed-out teachers may be a national problem. The survey by the nation's second-largest teachers union found that seven out of 10 teachers are stressed, and now the AFT is asking the U.S. Department of Education and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to follow up with another survey.
A new online survey by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has sparked concern that stressed-out teachers may be a national problem. The survey by the nation's second-largest teachers union found that seven out of 10 teachers are stressed, and now the AFT is asking the U.S. Department of Education and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to follow up with another survey.
While over 30,000 teachers responded to the survey, the American Federation of Teachers acknowledges that it was not a scientifically valid sampling of the teaching profession, due to the fact that it was conducted online, the Washington Post reports. However, the results were concerning enough that the teachers union wants a valid follow-up survey.
According to the Post, seven out of every 10 respondents said they "often" felt their work is stressful and almost eight out of 10 said they recently felt physically and mentally exhausted at the end of the work day.
Three out of four survey participants said they spend at least two hours on school work either before or after school. Most said the typical work day did not leave them any time to partake in hobbies or leisure activities.
"We ask teachers to be a combination of Albert Einstein, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and, I'm dating myself here, Tony Soprano," said Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT. "We ask them to be Mom and Dad and impart tough love but also be a shoulder to lean on. And when they don't do these things, we blame them for not being saviors of the world. What is the effect? The effect has been teachers are American Federation of Teachers Union Survey Finds 7 Out Of 10 Teachers Are Stressed : News : ISchoolGuide:
National teachers union wants feds to study stresses of teaching
Teachers feel such stress at work — from rising class sizes, mandates that come without money, and little respect from elected officials — that the leading American teachers union will ask the federal government Wednesday to formally study the health hazards of being a teacher.
A survey of more than 30,000 educators nationwide conducted by the American Federation of Teachers and the Badass Teachers Association found that more than 70 percent of teachers said they “often” find their work stressful, with another 24 percent responding “sometimes.”
The teachers chalked up the worst sources of their discontent to new initiatives that don’t come with proper training or professional development and to mandated curriculum and large class sizes, according to the survey.
The survey showed that 79 percent of teachers also feel disrespected by elected officials.
AFT President Randi Weingarten said the 80-question survey of a fraction of her 1.6 million members “wasn’t a scientific study” but hoped it’d be enough to spur the federal Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to formally study teachers’ workplace conditions.
“Right now in classrooms across the country, they are facing incredible challenges from stress, from standardized testing, from being thrown lots of requirements where they don’t have the time or the tools to actually implement, higher class sizes that have not been reduced since the recession and a lot of other things that have created a terrible situation,” Weingarten said Tuesday during a telephone press conference.
Illinois respondents accounted for about 7 percent of participants or about 2,000 teachers, counselors and social workers and other school staffers, according to the union. http://chicago.suntimes.com/education/7/71/600773/national-teachers-union-stress-study
Teachers Union Survey Shows Teachers Union MASSIVELY FAILS Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers pays its chief executive $360,000 each year and spent $19,499,848 in membership dues to influence elections in 2014 alone. However, a just-released national survey shows rank-and-file members are deeply unhappy — with stress levels, working conditions, government insistence that students learn more and much else.
The union has responded to the gloom among its constituents by asking the federal government to intervene with a formal study of how difficult and hazardous it is to be a schoolteacher.
The survey of over 30,000 teachers and school administrators was released on Tuesday by the American Federation of Teachers and a group called the Badass Teachers, according to a press release sent to The Daily Caller.
The dire results show that just one in five of the teachers and administrators who completed the 80-question survey believe government officials and members of the media sufficiently respect them.
Almost 95 percent of teachers say they “often” or “sometimes” find teaching stressful. (The “often” figure is 70 percent.) Almost 80 percent say they feel emotionally and physically exhausted at the end of their workdays — which make up approximately 75 percent of each year.
Almost 60 percent of the survey takers complain that their jobs interfere with quality family time on at least some occasions.
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