This is the last day of the strike. I am so happy to return to the class tomorrow. 10 days out of the classroom is a big deal and I know that everyone is happy to go back to school. Well, maybe... Micah would rather be out striking still. Who is this kid???
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Last day
This is the last day of the strike. I am so happy to return to the class tomorrow. 10 days out of the classroom is a big deal and I know that everyone is happy to go back to school. Well, maybe... Micah would rather be out striking still. Who is this kid???
Monday, January 21, 2019
MLK
How poignant... we have been on strike for the past few days to take a collective break in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Now more than ever, I feel that we have to stand together to make a change. I hope that Jawsh and I can impart this civic duty and social consciousness to Noah and Micah. What will they do to change the world???
Monday, January 14, 2019
Day 1- Strike
The last teacher strike in Los Angeles was in 1989. Twenty years later, 34,000 educators went on strike. As a veteran teacher, this was not something that I necessarily wanted but something I had to do. This was a post I wrote the eve before the strike:
Tomorrow I will go on strike. I will be picketing in the rain with my husband and sons, 20 colleagues from my school site, and 30,000 more teachers from the district. This is not what I hoped would happen, but what has to happen.
- I am striking to make a difference in the lives of all students.
- I am striking for students who do not have the educational environment and support systems they need.
- I am striking for the thousands of students who are sitting in overcrowded classrooms who don’t have desks and sit on the floor or lean on a wall.
- I am striking for the 80% of the district’s students who live at or near the poverty line and have a right to librarians, nurses, counselors, and psychologists more than one day a week.
- I am striking in the hopes that we do not break the district into “32 networks” so the haves keep having and the have-nots are left with nothing. I do not want Los Angeles to be the next New Orleans where there are no more neighborhood schools.
- I am striking for students who do not have the educational environment and support systems they need.
- I am striking for the thousands of students who are sitting in overcrowded classrooms who don’t have desks and sit on the floor or lean on a wall.
- I am striking for the 80% of the district’s students who live at or near the poverty line and have a right to librarians, nurses, counselors, and psychologists more than one day a week.
- I am striking in the hopes that we do not break the district into “32 networks” so the haves keep having and the have-nots are left with nothing. I do not want Los Angeles to be the next New Orleans where there are no more neighborhood schools.
I am not striking against schools but FOR schools. It’s not a cliche, teachers teach because they want to make a difference. And tomorrow, teachers will strike to make a difference.
Sunday, January 13, 2019
The box
Jawsh was commissioned by the City of Los Angeles to paint this electric box located in Westchester. I can't wait to see what he will do. Any guesses???
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