Furious Parents Cross Picket Lines in Oakland as Teachers Continue Strike for ‘Reparations,’ Among Other Demands

 When  I hear Teachers union clowns striking for political purposes and now reparations I have zero respect for them.  Teachers deserve good pay but based on student performance and GPA . Some teachers are there for the paycheck only.  Then these clowns go on the news in front of a camer a and say they are striking for the kids?  Why is the Union President  Randi Weingarten of the largest teachers union in Ukraine?   For a paycheck?  Ukraine is corrupt, a love affair for the Marxist Left.  Trump went there and they went nuts?

Furious parents marched their children across picket lines of striking teachers in Oakland, California, on Friday on the seventh day of a strike in which teachers are demanding reparations for slavery, among other demands.

As Breitbart News noted earlier this week, Oakland’s public school teachers went on strike last week not only for increased wages, but also for a variety of other demands, including environmental change and reparations.

While the teachers’ union has scaled back some demands, its latest list still includes a demand that reparations for black students be incorporated into a deal.

Local Fox affiliate KTVU-2 reports that some parents have had enough:

This morning at Joaquin Miller Elementary School, a group of parents gathered across the street to cross the picket line together, and escort their kids to campus.

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“I’ve never crossed a picket line before in my life. Yesterday was the first day I crossed,” said OUSD parent Francesca Brown, who has a 1st and 3rd grader.
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“I’ve seen wealthy families put their kids in private school, and I just see that happening more and more if we have more strikes in Oakland. Then it’s our lower-income families stuck in a dysfunctional system, and not enough money for schools,” she said. “I support our teachers 100 percent. I think they absolutely should be paid more, but at this point, I think they should be negotiating these things while our kids are in the classroom.”

Only about 20% of black students in Oakland met or exceeded state standards in English in 2022, and only about 11% of Oakland’s black students met or exceeded California standards in mathematics in that year.

The topic of reparations is a hot one locally, with the state set to debate the proposals of a task force appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in 2020, and San Francisco considering grants of $5 million per black resident.

But neither the school district — nor, indeed, the state — can afford these staggering demands. And many are questioning whether California, which entered the Union as a free state in 1850, should pay for slavery at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/05/12/furious-parents-cross-picket-lines-in-oakland-as-teachers-continue-strike-for-reparations/

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