LA teachers' strike brings day of disruption for thousands of students
LOS ANGELES - Across a rain-drenched city, students crowded into school auditoriums, talked over the adults brought in to manage them, watched "Black Panther" and played "Minecraft."
From San Pedro to El Sereno to Reseda on Monday, skeletal staffs crammed students together to try supervising them as Los Angeles teachers went on strike for the first time in 30 years.
The walkout of 31,000 teachers union members proved to be the massive disruption hundreds of thousands of students and their families had feared. The vast majority of the district's parents and guardians are low income, and many had to choose between missing work to watch their children or sending them into an unknown situation at school. While campuses remained open, the few adults present struggled to keep students engaged.
Only low attendance prevented an even more chaotic scenario of adults managing hundreds of students each. At
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