I work at a daycare center and we’ve lost about 20 teachers now including both of my co-teachers. I just graduated and did my student teaching at this center because we were already short staffed before and I needed insurance. I was not trained or given real mentorship because of COVID and I’ve essentially just been doing things as I’ve learned them. My latest co-teacher quit and didn’t even bother to tell me… We’d made a promise to tell each other if we would be leaving because she’d been burned by her last co-teacher who left without notice. It was her month to do lesson plans and she hasn’t even texted me back after I even asked if her son was doing okay. I feel so betrayed and hurt and like I’ve been blindsided because now I’m in charge of a room that I wasn’t prepared to be in charge of. And now I’m suddenly at fault for everything that was apparently wrong with our classroom and how it was run to begin with when I wasn’t really the lead teacher. I’m so exhausted. I’m burnt out and I have nothing left to give. I was waiting for her to come back. I thought we were at the very least friends, but I guess not. Stupid me.