What they’re saying: “It’s sad because I love what I do, but I hate all the extra stuff that we’re having to do,” said Gail Miller, a special education teacher in Kentucky. She’s been a teacher for 22 years, and says she’s never felt more exhausted.

“All this extra stuff … just feels like it’s piled on, and it’s not like it’s not necessary, but it’s not the best practice. I just feel like we’re trying to go back to normal but normal wasn’t great to begin with,” Miller said.

“I’ve got like five years left before I can retire. I’m just like, keep on pushing,” she told Axios.

By the numbers: Nearly one in four teachers said they were likely to leave their jobs at the end of last school year, compared with one in six teachers who said the same, on average, before the pandemic, according to a report by the RAND Corporation from March 2021.