Winnipeg Free Press SUPPLIED Jordan Laidlaw, a Winnipeg elementary school music teacher, feels like he’s ‘teaching with an arm tied behind my back.’ Music teachers are reporting high levels of burnout amid a school year during which many have been displaced from their homerooms, faced ever-changing choir and instrument use restrictions, and repeatedly rushed to find online alternatives to ensembles. Music teachers are reporting high levels of burnout amid a school year during which many have been displaced from their homerooms, faced ever-changing choir and instrument use restrictions, and repeatedly rushed to find online alternatives to ensembles. A new study of well-being in the Manitoba profession found 84 per cent of teachers feel fatigued from work, while 47 per cent have considered early retirement or a change in their career, if not both, because of pandemic disruptions.