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With more teachers calling for support with financial and emotional issues, Julian Stanley asks whether a teacher's home life affects their pupils.

Be honest, how many times did someone mention the length of your holidays this summer or ask how you could be stressed if you have so much time off? 

How did you respond? Did you tell them the truth: that you spend much of your vacation time planning, preparing and organising for the next academic year? Maybe you laughed off the question altogether. After all, school staff are not really that stressed, are they? 

Between 2010 and 2011, there were 45,633 calls or emails to the Teacher Support Network from more than 19,000 users made up of current, former and retired staff in education and their families.

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