This photo provided by Bill Mathis shows him and his first grade teacher in the mid-1990s in Michigan, where he grew up. He credits her and another teacher with inspiring him to become a teacher. (Courtesy Bill Mathis via AP)

Bill Mathis inspects THC gummy edibles in Hazel Park, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. A former teacher, Mathis has taken a new job in Michigan’s newly legalized cannabis industry. The pay is better, the hours more regular, the stress less, he says. No longer does he worry that he’ll catch COVID-19. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Sterling Heights Fire Department Chief Kevin Edmond works at a vaccine distribution location in Sterling Heights, Mich., Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Edmond, who’s been a firefighter and EMT for 35 years, said younger staffers are more open to the department’s mental health and peer support programs. “When I first started, there wasn’t such a thing. … It was basically you’ll get over it,” he said. “Unfortunately, because of our profession, we see a lot of bad things.” (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Mai Xiong, a new member of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners, works on a computer in her store in Warren, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. In April, the board adopted her resolution condemning hate crimes and hateful rhetoric against Asian Americans. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Sue Ziel, a sixth grade social studies teacher at Romeo Middle School, works in her classroom in Romeo, Mich., Tuesday, April 27, 2021. “I remember sitting in tears and telling my husband ‘I don’t know if I can do this,’ and those words have never come out of my mouth,” she said as the pandemic hit. Ziel left a job in advertising 24 years ago to teach. Even before then, she said the demands of the job had increased. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Sterling Heights firefighter Ashley Brouwer, who started her job in March 2021, prepares a syringe of Moderna vaccine at a distribution location in Sterling Heights, Mich., Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Mai Xiong, a new member of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners, sits for a portrait in her store in Warren, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. In April, the board adopted her resolution condemning hate crimes and hateful rhetoric against Asian Americans. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Mai Xiong, a new member of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners, attends a virtual meeting from her store in Warren, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. Before last year’s election, she campaigned door to door, pulling her young children in a wagon behind her. She was heartened that the reaction in Warren, the city that includes her district, was largely positive. And she won handily, taking out an old-guard member of the board. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Bill Mathis stands for a portrait in Hazel Park, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. In a social media discussion among educators and parents, he posted about leaving teaching because of the health risks to himself and his girlfriend, Annie, who has lupus, and how his salary made it hard to pay his bills. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Bill Mathis packages THC products in Hazel Park, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. A former teacher, Mathis has taken a new job in Michigan’s newly legalized cannabis industry. The pay is better, the hours more regular, the stress less, he says. No longer does he worry that he’ll catch COVID-19. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Sue Ziel, a sixth grade social studies teacher at Romeo Middle School, works in her classroom in Romeo, Mich., Tuesday, April 27, 2021. As the pandemic hit, she initially felt “paralyzed” at the thought of having to teach kids online and in person at the same time. She also got the virus. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

This summer 2020 photo provided by Bill Mathis shows him and his girlfriend, Annie Siwak, in Rochester, Mich. Stress over teaching during a pandemic put Mathis, 29, over the edge, and he resigned in November 2020. He was partly worried about transmitting the virus to Siwak, who has lupus. (Bill Mathis via AP)

Mai Xiong, a new member of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners, holds her hand on her heart for the Pledge of Allegiance during a virtual commissioners meeting from her store in Warren, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. As a woman of Hmong descent, and with hate crimes against people of Asian descent on the rise during COVID-19, she worried how voters might react to her candidacy. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

This June 2020 selfie photo shows Bill Mathis of Romeo, Mich., in one of the rooms where he taught high school English. It was his dream job, the one he referenced in a childhood journal he still keeps: “I would love to be a teacher,” he scrawled in pencil as a third grader. But stress over teaching during a pandemic put Mathis, 29, over the edge, and he resigned in November 2020. (AP Photo via Bill Mathis)

Sue Ziel, a sixth grade social studies teacher at Romeo Middle School, stands in her classroom in Romeo, Mich., Tuesday, April 27, 2021. As a veteran with experience on which she could draw, Ziel pushed through but said younger staffers were more likely to struggle with less support in a stressful time. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Sterling Heights Fire Department Chief Kevin Edmond works at a vaccine distribution location in Sterling Heights, Mich., Wednesday, April 28, 2021. While staffing levels in his department have remained the same since the mid-1990s, the number of runs the department makes for various emergencies has increased from 5,000 annually to more than 16,000. “A lot of people are using EMS as their primary health care providers,” often because they have no insurance, Edmond said. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)