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Nebraska teachers are leaving classrooms, saying burnout left little choice

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Ella Ricker was sitting in her elementary school orchestra class when she first considered a career in teaching. Her orchestra teachers at Lincoln Public Schools made learning to play music so fun, she wanted to share that joy with others.

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Kate Geiger, a former special education teacher, teaches a yoga class at Lotus House of Yoga.

LILY SMITH, Flatwater Free Press

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Kael Welch at The Open Book, a nonprofit bookstore in Kearney she opened with friends in 2025. Welch left her job as an elementary school teacher in 2012 to homeschool her kids.

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Erin Lane’s former teacher badge. Lane taught fourth grade at Blair Community Schools for 15 years. She retired early in 2022, a year after the school had returned to in-person learning after the pandemic. Yet many of the responsibilities asked of teachers during the pandemic continued even once it ended, she said.

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