92 percent of teachers in North Rhine-Westphalia complain about overwork. On a scale from 0 to 10, around 24,000 teachers rated their personal feeling of stress as an average of 8.21.
More and more teachers are leaving their jobs because the stress is so high that they no longer see their job as meaningful. The opposition is calling for curriculum reform in the short term and a comprehensive reform in long term, says Dilek Engin, education policy spokeswoman for the SPD.