Teachers Are Sharing The Moments Their Coworkers Walked Out Of Their Classrooms And Never Returned

If you’ve ever worked in a tough school, you might be familiar with the term “midnight run.” It describes those moments when teachers, overwhelmed by intolerable working conditions or relentless stress, simply disappear and quit without warning. u/Otherwise-Bad-325 recently shared their own firsthand experience with this: “Five days in, and two teachers have already done a ‘midnight run’ at my Title I school.”

They elaborated: “My neighbor pulled a ‘midnight run’ last night. She said good night normally to me last night and called the front lady in the office this morning to say that she wasn’t coming back.”

“I wasn’t able to get into her room today, as they moved her kids to the cafeteria,” they continued. “From what I remember, she really didn’t decorate her room that much, so she wouldn’t have left much behind. Amazing that she might have just woken up one morning and said, ‘Screw this, I’m not going in.’ Just mail in the keys and never go back. How liberating. I feel like keeping my room bare, just to maintain the fantasy of being able to do what she did, even though I cannot financially afford to walk off.”