I too will leave teaching this year. I will like being free of work at the end of the day, not having to use weekends to mark and prepare, not having to put up with administrations that care more about how they look to the public than what the kids learn. Education has become a world in which government statistics mean more than children, teachers are expected to do more and more with less and less until they try to do everything with nothing: it's time to say 'screw this'. I will be saying that in my resignation. There are other things to do with life, and being bled by a 'system' that doesn't care about its employees isn't it in my opinion. For those leaving, there is a better world ahead.