Three out of four teachers in Japan work on weekends, and 71% take work home to do, according to a recent survey on working conditions by a union… In response to these findings, a person in charge of the survey is calling for drastic increases in education budgets and teaching staff.
Because the occupation is losing popularity faster than the population, of course.
Now, you might assume teachers’ working conditions have stayed the same, so shouldn’t there be more of them at each school, relative to student numbers. But of course you’d be wrong.
Also, shrinking schools add even more stress to teaching. You need to become an expert in everything, because you don’t have coworkers who can take care of things they knew how to do well, as happened in the past.