RE: Serious mental health issues of teachers
Being a teacher has gotten increasingly hard over the course of the most recent years for a couple reasons, but I can only cover reasons that I am familiar with from my life here in Germany.
Being a teacher is neither as safe nor as well paid in many cases as it used to be. Every now and then, the education system attempts some stunts that usually end up being carried on the backs of teachers. And as you said in your post, there is a lot more pressure coming from the parents. A teacher and his values and actions aren't as precious as they once were.
But the whole thing can be turned the other way around.
A lot of people want to become teachers not because of shaping the future of young humans or the joy of education but because the imagine that it comes with all the percs. They end up being disappointed and depressed.
@paparodin Thank you for your reflective comment. It is true that disappointment and depression can come when the reality does not fit what they have imagined how teaching career is like.
Absolutely.
It holds especially true for jobs like being a teacher because there is a long road of learning and studying between you being optimistic and ending up disappointed eventually.