Opinion: Teachers demo is on
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The teachers’ walkout is going on all over town. I saw walkers at three schools on my way in, including my own kid’s school.
These pictures barely suggest so, but there are a suspicious number of kids on the picket line. I counted at least a dozen kids walking the line at Rosewood Ave. Elementary, but did not have my camera. (Which is mine, btw, not the L.A. Time’, so you can’t blame Sam Zell for the horrible picture quality.)
As this was a one-hour walkout and it’s now 10:20, it may be winding down. Here’s how the ed board thought of the strike yesterday:
The district’s argument doesn’t wash. With some planning, the schools should be able to keep students safe for one hour. Even so, while respecting the teachers’ right to stage a high-profile protest, we wish they wouldn’t do it in this particular way. The morning walkout likely will result in a lost school day for many students while making little difference to the lawmakers who hold the schools’ fates in the balance.
As it is with Catholics and their local priest, as it is with Americans and their local politician, so I have little sympathy with teachers as a group but am fond of my own kid’s in loco, who is far from perfect but kept good order during a chaotic morning at the school and even went ahead with a planned field trip. To where I have no idea, because that’s the kind of involved dad I am.