This research was designed to assess the impact of the school climate on teachers' and pupils' stress, satisfaction, violence perceptions, and physical health.
While the profession, stung by reports of burnt-out juniors and stressed pupils, has in recent years taken steps to redress the work/life imbalance, this is still not a career for those seeking a nine- to-five job.
The report also recorded the "largely negative" impact of Sats on children's home life, with year 6 and 7 pupils reporting "feeling stressed or nervous, being made fun of or bullied over their marks, and even talking of assessment causing break-ups between friends".
Regarding the drawing lesson (making an anti-drugs poster), the teacher found that the pupils got quite stressed trying to finish their poster within the allowed time.
The study, by Professor Merryn Hutchings from London Metropolitan University for the National Union of Teachers, says pupils are becoming "anxious, stressed and disaffected" because the new more rigorous curriculum brought in by Michael Gove when he was Education Secretary has pressured them to work at a level for which they are not yet ready.
A pupil of Aristotle, Dicearchus, stressed that Plato's academicians were treated as free and equal.
My pupils are all looking very stressed these days.
Less cash maybe, more stressed parents and pupils, but also more high-calibre graduates enrolling as teachers.
Butch Harmon, Woods's former coach, stressed his former pupil should have suffered disqualification.
When you're stressed, your heart pounds, pupils dilate and catecholamines pour into the bloodstream and suppress immunity.
