♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, teacher dropouts. fed up and burnt out as students across the nation head back to class. >> a lot of good teachers have left, and they are leaving. >> perennially overworked, underpaid, and quitting in record numbers. >> what we're seeing now, which is shocking and has me calling it a five-alarm crisis. >> striking in seattle today. 50,000 students forced to stay home. what's being done to stop the hemorrhaging? plus, american phenom. francis tiago now the first u.s. male player to reach the

semifinals of the u.s. open in 16 years and the first african american male to do so since arthur ashe himself. how he is inspiring others. and ozzy and sharon. the original first couple of reality tv. plotting a move back to their native england. >> i can't speak for ozzy, but i want to go home. >> the heavy metal rocker at 73 hitting the stage at the commonwealth games. why the prince of darkness is still riding the crazy train. ♪ i'm going off the rails on the crazy train ♪

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♪ thanks for joining us. letter begin with the alarming teacher shortage across america just as millions of americans are sending their kids back to school. deepers in seattle on strike. the latest sign of the crisis. those who do decide to stay are sometimes forced to make painful sacrifices, even taking second jobs. here's abc's mona kosar abdi. >> reporter: from picket line to picket line, this process repeats itself. drive. walk. chant. hold signs. rinse and repeat. >> we see a lot of faces, but who's out here?

>> you're largely seeing seattle education association educators, you're also seeing a lot of community members, a lot of families, some students with families too. >> reporter: for 19 years, miche has taught special education to the students of seattle. but today, miche is skipping class and joining the cause, going on strike, fighting for equity, fair pay, and desperately needed help for the teachers of the country. >> so this is a strike, yes. but this is the work that we do. we're always out here for our students. not just on the lines, but wherever our students need. >> reporter: today was supposed to be the first day of classes for seattle public schools. but all the students are home because all the teachers, like miche, are here. >> there is a growing crisis in american education -- >> around the country, so many school districts facing similar challenges. >> as school starts there's growing concern about who will be there to teach students.

>> reporter: across the country, in multiple states, in dozens of school districts, they need teachers as a nationwide shortage of educators ravages the system. >> we did a survey to find out a little bit more about the educator shortage. we were shocked, honestly. 55% of them said they were planning on leaving the profession. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers and other staff have left the field since the beginning of the pandemic. according to the bureau of labor statistics, what's causing it, burnout tops the list followed by lingering stress from the covid pandemic. unfilled job openings leading to more work and low pay. >> we have empty -- >> reporter: the white house now taking action, meeting with leaders of recruitment companies, indeed, zip recruiter, and handshake, to discuss strategies to fill these vacancies. >> what we're seeing now, which is shocking and has me calling it a five-alarm crisis, they are telling us that it is due to a lack of respect for them as

professionals, a lack of professional pay, a lack of the kind of resources to meet individual needs of students. >> teaching in 2022 is definitely a challenging time. i feel like there has never been more work that i am expected to do, and the pay has not kept up with inflation or cost of living or insurance. and so overall, the stress and the -- the burnout and threatening of burnout is really a real issue. >> i woke up because i heard? footsteps. >> reporter: cara roth rock is a third grade teacher in new albany, southern indiana. the mom of three has more than 20 years' experience in education with a master's degree. it's a demanding job and the workday is long with a classroom full of 8-year-olds competing for her attention. >> it takes a lot of energy to keep up with a third grader.

and so i have 26 of them this year to keep up with. i'm so tired. and sometimes it just wears you down. and i just would like to go home at night and be off. >> reporter: but at the end of the school day when her students go home, cara is not even close to finishing. >> have a good day. >> reporter: there's paperwork, lesson planning, tutoring after school for extra money. >> you don't have to type all that, just go right there. i am heading to work for the second time. >> reporter: and then several nights a week, she gets in her car and drives across town to work here, at pauley's freeze, a local ice cream stand. >> let's start with the small banana split flurry. >> reporter: it's the same part-time job she's held since she was a teenager. now at the age of 44, she wonders how much longer she can keep it up. >> every year i get older. would i have to give up a second job in order to be 50-plus and still teaching?

because i hope that i can do that financially. >> reporter: cara is not alone. more than 1,000 piles away in denver, colorado, k.j. larsen is feeling the immense pressure as well. >> i think the kids liked me. i connected with them. >> reporter: k.j. started teaching at a charter school straight out of college, eventually moving into denver's public school system as a business teacher. >> i really wanted to have a positive impact on my community. because i didn't feel like, and i still don't feel like, you can change the world at large, but you can impact your local community. >> reporter: several family who were teachers themselves, - warned the 23-year-old to stay away from the profession, encouraging her to find another job that was more flexible with better pay. k.j. recently sat down with my colleague mireya villarreal. >> i think they're like, you can't keep what you like to do, living in colorado, on that salary. she was so exhausted all the

time. she'd think, why would you go into a career like that? >> and you still did it? >> and i still did it. >> reporter: a year into her teaching career, the pandemic hit. educators were being asked to do more with limited resources. k.j. stayed on, but she began to struggle. >> my rent increased exponentially, that was a big one, like 48%. and i could no longer afford to live in denver. and i got in a place i wouldn't be able to support myself on my own. >> reporter: k.j. tried to take extra by taking on a waitress job and doing taxes for nonprofit groups on the side but it wasn't enough. the pressures of teaching in the pandemic also weighed heavily on her. how long did you last at that school? >> only two years, then i quit. >> reporter: k.j. is now working as an accountant with better pay and more flexibility. education secretary miguel cardona is pushing in the short-term to use american rescue plan dollars as an incentive to bring back retired

teachers without penalty to their retirement benefits, and to create grow your own programs. >> the fact that we've normalized teachers working at uber on the weekends or having to waitress on the weekends to make ends meet is unacceptable. it doesn't measure up. we have to do better with salary, working conditions, and teacher voice. >> i think the salary for teachers in our country is really shameful. >> reporter: teaching remains in cara's dna. her parents were both teachers. educating students is very much in her blood. but she says her income has failed to keep up with inflation. >> we had a comfortable household with a two-teacher family. it was comfortable. we were never extravagant by any means but we were comfortable. now i don't feel like that's the case. >> reporter: despite working three jobs to make ends meet, cara is not questigiving up her teaching career yet, although she wouldn't want her own children to follow in her

footsteps. >> until teaching changes, the pay is better, the workload is less. i just can't ever recommend that someone go into this profession, into this abusive relationship. and be okay with it. >> our thanks to mona. up next, ozzy and sharon. why america's original first family of reality tv is leaving the country. my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... the itching... the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®, most people saw 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks. the majority of people saw 90% clearer skin even at 5 years. tremfya® is the first medication of its kind also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis... and it's 6 doses a year after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections

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with sharon and ozzy osbourne, still going strong after years on reality tv, even celebrating 40 years of marriage. ozzy battling health issues but back on stage. sharon addressing the racial controversy that led to her exit "the talk." and the big news, their big move. >> reporter: 20 years ago when the reality tv series "the osbournes" stay buyed on mtv in march 2002, its first episode showed the british rock 'n' roll family moving into a home in l.a. now, two decades later, ozzy and sharon osbourne are moving out. if these hedges could talk what would they say, ozzy? >> "thank god they're going." >> reporter: ozzy and sharon departing america in 2023 for their english country estate. >> i just feel at this point in my life, i can't speak for ozzy, but i want to go home. and it doesn't mean i'll never come -- my children are here. i need to be back where i came

from. >> i love america. but i've got to go where i've got to go. >> the bbc are actually doing something on us moving home, a series on us moving back. >> reporter: they leave after reshaping the landscape of television forever. >> rock 'n' roll! >> reporter: the four wildly successful seasons of "the osbournes" all but invented the family reality series. their open house transformed an amiably addled british heavy metal frontman and his manager spouse into beloved pop culture ogs. >> that period of time was wonderful. and the thing that sharon pointed out, our kids, instead of telling them about what it was like, i can show them what it was like. >> you think you remember it all, but you don't. >> reporter: remember? starting with black sabbath in the '70s, ozzy's reign as the prince of darkness would be fueled by such rock radio megahits as "paranoid." and "iron man." ♪ going solo saw ozzy team with

the late guitarist randy rods for "crazy train." ♪ >> reporter: through ozzy's challenges with substance abuse and admitted extramarital dalliances, this couple has endured and prevailed as they shared to "good morning britain." >> it's like a shakespearean play, our love story. ozzy's been a right old [ bleep ] with women. >> reporter: recent years have seen health issues and hot-button controversy test the clearly indomitable cheerfulness of ozzy and sharon. revealing to robin roberts onny's multiple health issues. >> i did my last show a few years ago at the forum, and i had a bad fall. i had to have surgery on my neck, which screwed all my nerves. i found out that i have a mild form --

>> it's parken 2. >> reporter: a gene known to cause early onset parkinson's. after a new surgery in june this year to address pain and mobility issues from the fall, a host of new projects looks to turn the tide. >> when i go on stage, something takes over. sex, drugs, or whatever don't come close to the stage for me. >> reporter: last month, this was ozzy, on stage for the first time in more than two years alongside his longtime guitarist from black sabbath, tony aiomi, closing the commonwealth games in their hometown of birmingham, england. you looked so happy on stage in your hometown. >> five minutes from the school i went to. incredible. >> reporter: ozzy's parkinson's is slowly progressing as he copes with physical issues. how's your mobility these days? >> not great. but i mean, after -- i have to

negotiate everywhere i want to go. and i tire easily. but i'm well. my family have been absolutely wonderful. i can't do it, they'll do everything for me. >> how's that been for you, sharon? >> he's a pain in the butt. everything from heartbreaking to soul-destroying to joys of he's getting better. ♪ >> reporter: his new album "patient number nine" drops this week. ozzy, patient number nine. you have the nine lives of a cat, don't you? >> he's got more than that, let me tell you. >> i mean, i've -- i should have been dead a long time ago. >> i read, ozzy, that you wanted to leave los angeles because you were upset about all the shootings that have been taking place? >> school shootings, mass kerts, it's every day now. it's becoming a common thing. >> do i feel safe living here without security? no. no way.

>> is that why you're moving back to the uk? >> one of the reasons. >> reporter: sharon's eventful life will be chronicled in a four-part fox nation docuseries that will also address her tumultuous march 2021 departure from "the talk" after fraught exchanges with sharon underwood. sharon defending piers morgan who had labeled meghan markle a liar after her famous oprah interview. >> everybody goes, if you support him, then you must be racist because he's racist. >> how will you be addressing your departure from "the talk" in that documentary? >> truthfully. what happened to me. the way i felt about it. the amount of time it took me mentally to get over it. i had all these nutcases, you know, threatening me. they started ones sozzy. it's like, hey, uh-uh, he's got a enough [ bleep ] stress for the last three years of his life and you're picking on him.

i defended myself to cbs. and their legal team is saying, well, we don't believe you're repentant enough. and i'm like, you don't know me. you know nothing about who i am or what i am as a person. i'm the one that is in therapy. i'm the one that's got 24-hour guards outside the house. don't you dare talk to me like that. >> reporter: we asked cbs to comment on sharon's allegations, but cbs sent this 2021 statement. "we concluded that sharon's behavior towards her cohosts did not align with our values for a respectful workplace." >> as you look back on that time now, what sort of things come to mind? >> an education. and no regrets. >> reporter: no regrets it's bea about celebrating their 40th anniversary in hawaii. >> can you believe that? actually, i said to sharon, where did the time go? >> when i met him, when i was

18, and i'm 70 next month. so he's been -- get off, you. >> i made a lot of mistakes during these 40 years. we all have. but i can honestly say, i've only ever had one love in my life, really. that's my wife sharon. >> reporter: with son jack and his four kids stateside, daughter kelly expecting this fall, it's more "see ya later" than "farewell." with ozzy eager to get back on stage and do what he's done for more than 50 years. what do you want your fans to know about how you are now and what you imagine going forward? >> don't give up. when i retire, i mean, i'll hear the sound of soil going on me. you ain't going to see the last of me yet. >> our thanks to chris. ozzy takes the stage tomorrow night at sofi stadium in l.a. he performs during halftime as the nfl season kicks off.

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immigrants from sierra leone makes his first-ever grand slam semifinal appearance friday nightress his big win coming two days after he upset 22-time grand slam champion rafael nadal. >> man, this is wild, this is crazy. >> tiafoe is being talked about as the future of american men's tennis. and that future's looking bright. that's "nightline." you can watch all our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america. check out this time space wormhole i creat how's it work? let me see your togo, and i'll show you.