LAUSD teachers strike could disrupt a delicate life balance for some families
LOS ANGELES - On his first day back from winter break, 11-year-old Merwinn Rojas got a taste of how his life could change during a teachers strike. The after-school robotics league he participates in three days a week at Foshay Learning Center, about five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was canceled Monday, so he walked home with his mom in near silence.
The shy sixth-grader knows some of the reasons why his teachers are poised to walk the picket line starting Thursday. They have told him their movement is akin to the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. He wants them to get paid more and receive better treatment.
But Merwinn, whose big brown eyes peek out from behind an overgrown bowl haircut, is concerned about what will happen
