Superintendent asks teachers not to protest

Schools are sending home notes about what students should do in the morning if the teachers stage their early-morning protest against the budget proposals. L.A. Unified plans a court effort to stop the one-hour pickets.

The superintendent, David Brewer, said in a statement: "We owe it to our students to stop this counterproductive action." The Times' Jason Song writes more about today's efforts.

And you can read in The Homeroom what our blogging students, parents and teachers think. Meanwhile, an editorial in The Times weighs in.

-- Mary MacVean

Comments

[A Teacher]

Perhaps if the Times had been supporting teachers all along, we might have had more credibility and leverage with legislators when it comes to job actions. Instead we have been belittled, stereotyped and pigeon-holed by the Times for as long as I can remember.

[Tyrone]

Why don't we pass more tax cuts for the yachting class and just fire all the teachers?

It is not like we're going to need educated anyhow.

In the future everything will be built in China, managed in India and ultimately run by prep school grads who don't have to rely on public school teachers and their unions.

Bah! Those unions are their silly ideas, like quality of life. Bah!

[A Teacher #2]

The problem regarding the state of our education would go away if school districts held parents accountable,which would then force them to stop allowing them to use us a babysitters. Nowadays, kids are filled with self-entitlement and a victim mentality that makes our jobs much more difficult then in the past. For those of you who state, "Well, no one's forcing you to teach." Well if those of us who care didn't, then who would? Remember, teachers make all other jobs possible.

[A student]

Sounds like we need a new Superintendent; one willing to fight for us and our teachers. Or are we supposed to learn to simply shut up and take it when the government does something stupid?