Do you feel that the non-teaching requirements of your role are detrimental to the quality of your lessons and job satisfaction?

As a subject teacher, I feel frustrated that the non-teaching requirements of my role are having a detrimental effect on the quality of my lessons and student learning.

I am exhausted before I even get to plan my lessons due to meetings after meetings, duties, extracurricular activities, home room responsibilities, and pastoral issues.

While many will argue that this is part of the job, teaching and learning is actually the essential part. Comically, however, it is the area that is often neglected in many schools because loud activities (ie, optics) are valued over quiet ones.