This deals with work relations

Dear world of psychology, I need your advice.

I have been working in an environment where I am not happy for a long time. The environment (a school) is stressful and demanding. More so, our leadership is unreasonable and phony. We (I say we, because it literally is almost everyone) fears losing our jobs because if you speak up, you usually find yourself unemployed.

I have felt voiceless, as if I were in a cage. Recently, I was approached by a parent of a student in an Advanced Placement course about changing a letter grade. His daughter was a straight-A student and he could literally not live with her being one point away from a B, so he started to attack every facet of my teaching.

Although stressful and annoying, I stood my ground because I believe in ethics. I cannot control the choices the world makes, but I can choose to do good or do bad.

This man was relentless and sent talking points out to other parents, emailed the Principal, and then the Superintendent’s crew. I am being asked to commit massive wide-spread grade fraud. I feel like our students have this self-protection mode rather than self-development and I understand they need rewiring. Everyone always gets an A, at all cost. Very dangerous mindsets. I love my kids and want them to do well, but can not sleep at night doing this.

I am thinking about finishing the year and quitting. I have not been happy since I took the job, have high levels of constant stress, feel like I am running empty, and my blood pressure has soared along with the development of episodic migraines. I have many friends in many school systems and know that this is not their reality. And these aren’t just my feelings—almost every teacher is stresses and feeling unimportant and unsafe, job-security-wise.

Do you think this is a good mood or am I “running away”. I have been reading articles for a long time on “happy chemicals” and want to know your thoughts.