Public school leaders aren't leaving because they can't take the heat. They're leaving because they've been pushed to the breaking point.
In You're Losing Us: The Breaking Point of Public School Leadership, Alex Hennix takes readers inside the reality of educational leadership, where betrayal, gossip, and silence cut deeper than policy or pay. With raw honesty and unflinching detail, she shares the exhaustion of carrying schools through storms she didn't create, while being ridiculed from the sidelines the entire time.
Through personal stories of sacrifice, heartbreak, and resilience, Hennix reveals the real reasons schools are losing their leaders: not because administrators don't care, but because they can't keep carrying everyone else's burdens alone.
And yet, this is not just a book about breaking. It's about the hope that still lives in the arena, the teachers, kids, parents, and board members who refuse to give in to cruelty, silence, and gossip. It's a call to communities to stand up, to speak up, and to fight for the schools that hold small towns together.
Raw, urgent, and deeply human, You're Losing Us is more than a book. It's not a warning. It's a plea. And it's a reminder that public schools, and the leaders who fight for them, are worth saving.