To be exhausted on 1st September is not good. It is not the teaching that most saps the energy, it is the meetings.

I remembered the words of a fax I got from a friend in the mid-1990s, in those days before we all had email.

“Are you lonely ?
Work on your own ?
Hate having to make decisions ?
Rather talk about it than do it ? Then why not

“HOLD A MEETING”

You can get to see other people
Sleep in peace. Offload decisions
Learn to write volumes of meaningless notes
Feel important and impress (or bore)
your colleagues.

And all in work time !

“Meetings”
The Practical Alternative to work”

A colleague in Northern Ireland used to have a plaque on the wall of the vestry of his church: “For God so loved the world, he did not send a committee”.