Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, has come up with the wonderful opinion that teaching isn't stressful. Having met headteachers who were facing the sack if their Ofsted inspection wasn't up to scratch and working in a world where such terms as 'hostile takeovers' and 'vunerability' are now everyday language, I think the chap might be a little mistaken.
What Wilshaw says is, to a point, true as he spoke of the workplace stress that came from trying to find work in the post-war depression years and the struggle to keep food on the table and clothes on their family's back but it is facile to say that the teaching role is not pressurised.
It's just a different pressure!
