In Texas, we were told if you strike, you lose your retirement. Despite tenure, we could be fired at will. If you don’t do as you are told, they write you up like you’re a child. It’s a brutal educational system and they deserve to lose teachers, which they indeed have because they mishandled covid so badly with their culture war crap, but worse, they are failing kids. I didn’t just leave because I couldn’t stand teaching in that bully culture; I left because I wanted my own kids to be educated.