As far as routines being disrupted and parents being inconvenienced because the schools are not providing free child care on teacher walkout days: The disruption is a wake-up call, because surely teachers are not the only citizens who care about quality education.
Parents and non-teaching community members could have seen this coming if they’d been listening, and could have said, “No, wait! You keep teaching and we will lobby the legislators in Olympia to do the job we elected them to do.” But that didn’t happen, so teachers have had to set their jobs aside and do what should have been done by the community at large, even though it would have been more effective coming from the general citizenry, because we know from past history that the legislators don’t listen to the teachers.
It would be interesting to see if the legislators would listen to the general public, because if they don’t, then it’s time to follow the money trail and find out who they are listening to and why.
Elizabeth Thoreson
Snohomish
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