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McCall said a friend sent the letter to the paper on her behalf.

\"[T]he only things keeping me from resigning until now were the love I have for my students, the love I have for the act of teaching, and the heavy guilt I feel for my children being negatively impacted by this in any way: emotionally or academically,\" McCall wrote in the document. \"However, I cannot set myself on fire to keep someone else warm.\"

McCall went on, writing how she felt there were signs of \"systematic abuse and neglect of educators\" in South Carolina, as well as a lack of support.

\"It is because I love teaching that I will not tolerate what the state is doing to the educators and children under its care. Unfortunately these issues will not be resolved until the perception of public education and other state social services change. Then people will band together for the common goal of elevating these necessary resources to the status of respect they deserve. The public has to demand that they receive the time, funding, and resources they require,\" she added.

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PHOTO: Sariah McCall of Savannah Ga., is seen during a Montessori teacher training session over summer 2018.
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McCall, who was part of the #SCforED movement to improve the educational system, said her eye-opening words to Dr. Postlewait proved relatable to others who shared it online.

\"It felt like if it mattered to all these other people then it was bigger than me,\" McCall said of fellow teachers who read it. \"The response has been been overwhelmingly positive, and I hope that means change will actually come from it.\"

In a statement to \"GMA,\" Postlewait said she was surprised when she received McCall's letter, and asked her to reconsider and if time off would help her.

Postlewait went on to say many of McCall's concerns are unfortunately shared by others in the teaching profession.

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PHOTO: Sariah McCall, 28, of Savannah, Ga., is seen working from home. McCall shared her resignation with media letter after resigning from her teaching job on Nov. 5, 2018.
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\"Teaching is very difficult work, and teachers are generally neither appreciated nor compensated at a level that would speak to the important job that they have,\" Postlewait noted. \"I don’t think it is any surprise that fewer people want to go into teaching. The recent legislative debates about teaching conditions and salaries cut to the heart of what is really on the frontline of education every day.\"

She continued, \"I wish we could have saved Sariah [McCall] for the teaching profession and for the young students she would have impacted. To the best of our ability, we simply must find a way to change the conditions that teachers face in order to have any chance to change the lives of the students we serve.\"

While McCall still feels guilty for leaving her students behind, she now lives an irreplaceable life of higher quality -- physically, emotionally and financially, she said.

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PHOTO: Sariah McCall, 28, Savannah, Ga., shared her resignation letter with the world to raise awareness of the hardships teachers face.
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And although she's no longer teaching inside the classroom, McCall stands by the cause to improve public education through sharing her resignation letter and by speaking at #SCforED rallies.

\"I want decisions for teachers to be made by teachers,\" she noted. \"You don't know [the hardships] unless you're doing the job, but everybody has an opinion about it. I was wanting to raise that awareness that this is serious what we're dealing with. We're not just whining. This is real.\"

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