Spurred on apparently by the division’s most recent teacher resignation, people took to the podium at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Mathews County School Board to express their concern about the increasing workload faced by teachers and the effect it is having in the classroom and the community. During the public comment period of the meeting in the Brooks Auditorium at the Thomas Hunter Education Center, Samantha Hudgins introduced herself as the “now former fifth grade math teacher.” During the closed meeting that preceded Tuesday’s regular meeting, the board approved her resignation. A large contingent of employees was in attendance. Hudgins said that she knew she wanted to be a teacher from a very young age. However, in spite of the “invigorating rewards” of being a teacher, she said she immersed herself so much in her work that she lost herself, experiencing burnout so severely she fell ill. “But I wasn’t doing more than what a majority of the other teachers are doing,” she said....