Today, more than ever before, students and teachers experience a great deal of stress. For teachers who are vulnerable, because of bad habits, their stress gets worse and usually leads to burnout. Major sources of stress are: public school violence, dealing with youth and gangs, and teacher overload. For every teacher, there's a different stress point  
As Rachel Levy, an ESL teacher describes stress for her:
The most stressful thing professionally for me is the emphasis on standardized testing, which has been a growing trend in American public education in recent years, and has just gotten much worse with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, which I like to call the No Child Left Untested Excessively Act. . .
 
These are stories from teachers about the stress in their lives that they share with other teachers as well as how they cope or how they're not coping with them.