Guestmg - you obviously don't know any teachers in GB. Despite gaining 10% of their time table to prepare and mark, the job takes over normal life. ' You must mark in three different colours' - the heads been on a course - so it takes twice as long. Then the head goes on another course!
Holidays are spent getting the work ready for the next term because Government have changed what you have to teach yet again.
One third of young teachers leave within 3 years.
The days of being a modestly paid government employee but one where you could develop other interests are long gone. ( except the bit about the modest pay).
FloraG.