at burnout - or some other phenomenon - may well be at work in leading younger teachers to exit the profession.
Specifically, Evans (1996) maintains that despite career stability, veteran educators do not appear to be enjoying or displaying the benefits of age and experience. He thinks that it has become increasingly rare to meet teachers who radiate enthusiasm or principals who praise teacher competence. Teachers complain regularly about stress and being overburdened by crowded classrooms, growing instructional and noninstructional demands, low levels of salary, support, and recognition, and deteriorating conditions in schools and diminishing readiness among pupils. Evans (1996, p. 94) further states that teachers' dissatisfaction is broad and deep but close to passive resignation than to active indignation and "closer to dejection that deflates energy than to anger that inspires action."
This presents the challenge of burnout, the culmination of a progressive disillusionment and lack of efficacy in which early enthus
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