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Exhaustion.

Fatigue.

Overwhelmed.

Lack of support.

No wonder I don't feel like writing much these days.

School is chewing me up and going to spit me out.

Overly dramatic, yes, but that's how I feel.

There's only so much effort, hard work, patience, resilience and grit that one has before it becomes too much.

I'm finding it difficult to care.

And from the last week of last term:

Penultimate year 10 class of the year.

First 5 minutes and one of my students, X, raises his fist at me and has this look on his face like, "I am going to smash your face.

The hatred in his eyes scares me sh-tless and I immediately tell him to go outside.

Thand God he does.

The other time I asked another student to move, she said "B-llsh-t, c--t".

So this kid leaves the classroom and I'm shaking.

There's still 85 minutes of the lesson to go.

I stand outside wondering what I am going to do.

I put on a four minute You Tube video.

I can't think straight.

Breathe.

Focus.

I feel like crying.

Like all alumni, Quentin signed up for Teach For Australia because "I strongly believe in educational equality for all students".

On the other hand, "I can't believe I have to work in a job where I am continually verbally abused and put up with insane amounts of stress".

Trainees at the chalkface, Caroline Overington, The Weekend Australian, pp14-18, 5 May 2012 Historical link preserved from the original page.

The average person has no idea what gets covered up in schools on a regular basis, especially if the parents are 'High Profile'.

I work in the education system in a very 'GOOD' school.

The average person out there has no idea what gets covered up in schools on a regular basis; including threats / assaults/ bullying of staff.

If the parents are 'High Profile', ethnic, religious, cultural minorities then all kinds of excuses are made when their child does something really bad.