Exodus of stressed, underpaid teachers

Record quit before 3yrs up. 800 a week ditch their roles. Anxiety and abuse blamed

- LUCY THORNTON and MATT DAVIS

MORE than a quarter of state school teachers now abandon the profession within their first three years.

Department for Education statistics on state-funded schools reveal that in November last year, 5,292 of the 20,431 teachers who entered the profession three years earlier had already left their jobs - the most in 20 years.