I’m trying to balance being a union member — and not wanting to make it any easier for the district — and being a teacher and a mom and wanting to give my kids everything.
LA teacher Jennifer Liebe-Zelazny, on bracing for a possible strike Monday.
United Teachers Los Angeles’ more than 30,0000 members have been working without a contract for over a year.
On Friday, the union once again met with leaders of the LA Unified School District to try to hammer out an agreement. LAUSD is the second largest school district in the country, and a strike would affect roughly 480,000 public school students.
Alta Loma Elementary School teacher Jennifer Liebe-Zelazny is ready to strike if there’s no deal come Monday. But she knows it will come at a cost to her fourth-grade students.
“I am obviously really concerned if this drags out what the real impact is gonna be to their progress,” she says. “I’m a little stressed about that.”
Liebe-Zelazny has spent the last few days collecting donated books to send home with her students so they can have something to read during the strike.
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(via npr)