Bureaucratic systems to record pupil progress and staff performance, plus a heavier burden of written marking to please Ofsted inspectors, are taking a toll on the health of the school workforce and prompting more to escape to schools in the independent sector or overseas, the survey finds.
Pressured with burdens of guilt trying to please and be perfect to meet the expectations of the holidays, we slip into behaviors that eat at our joy.
"You can see it is almost a burden, that talent he has to please a crowd" – Leo Benedictus on Jim Carrey in this week's Comedy Gold.
But freed from the burden of heavy expectations and pretensions -- and price, for that matter -- it exists simply to please.
Struggling to please others and be perfect often turns a joyful holiday season into a burden.
"You have to please TV, you have to please fans.
To please everybody is to please nobody".
Males also exercised more to please others.
Placebo means to please (from latin placere).
