Do teachers have too much on their plates?

Ask sickness in teachers rises, we ask the people of Newport whether they think teachers are being overworked.

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00:00I think really has upped the workload is the technology.

00:06Your senior manager, you know, can you chase up this email and that email,

00:10so your time at home is not your own.

00:14They're trying to teach you more and more and more for less hours maybe,

00:17you know, trying to take on more and more.

00:19So again, I think, yeah, I think it should be looked at definitely,

00:21same as everything else.

00:23Students get plenty of holidays.

00:25Those holidays aren't really holidays.

00:28It could be classified as medical leave.

00:31It's required.

00:33And it's a technology more than anything else,

00:37which is eating into the quality time of teachers in school and outside school.

00:43I've got two granddaughters, again, both in school.

00:45So again, I think, yeah, they've had a tough time, like everybody.

00:48I think it does need to be looked at.

00:50You know, as you said, class sizes have gone up, I believe, over the years.

00:54When my kids were in school, they were probably, you know, 20 in a class.

00:57You know, there could be 30 or 40 I've read.