for schools because the need of children from the pandemic is significant. teachers here are getting children on a very, very low starting point, and there s a pressure on to get them to national average. and then you couple that with having a larger number of children with special educational needs, with less funding, it makes it very, very difficult in school, resulting in some challenging behaviour. we ve got some very, very strong teachers here, some very experienced teachers, who are really struggling, and it s in part due to the increased needs that we have. teaching has always been a demanding job, but the pandemic has brought additional pressures and there are issues over pay and workload. we ve spoken to teachers across the country, who are leaving the profession. the whole education structure needs to change and there also needs to be systems in place to help with pupil behaviour because it s getting out of control. i was trained to teach secondary school science, to teach pu