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When couples disagree about staying in or leaving teaching careers

My partner and I are both teachers in different districts and we keep having the same fight about whether to stay in public education or leave - they think we should stick it out and try to change things from within while I'm completely burned out and feel like we're just enabling a broken system. We can't seem to talk about our future without it turning into an argument about whether we're abandoning our students or sacrificing ourselves.

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Two people committed to education are discovering their different responses to systemic dysfunction are threatening both their relationship and their sense of shared purpose.

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