Re: @ wolfetone
"It's the additional government paperwork, benchmarking and assorted other bureaucracy that sucks the life out of people. That and the fact many schools are fundamentally toxic work environments with institutionalised staff that are bullies and utterly hellish to talk to never mind work with."
That is a pretty accurate description of the atmosphere my mother used to bring home with her from her last school. After starting at that place she changed from the best mum in the world to something else completely.