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    Steve Lopez: How the teacher's strike is playing out at the school with the most homeless students in the district

    by Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Telfair Elementary School Principal Jose Razo returned to his roots Tuesday, filling in as a pre-K teacher while the L.A. Unified strike continued.

    His text for the day: "How I Became a Pirate."

    But first he asked his students whether anyone knew what a pirate does.

    "A pirate lives on the ocean and sometimes steals things," said a future valedictorian.

    Razo complimented the boy and began reading, then noted that the pirates seemed to have some dental problems, including one scurvy sea dog with missing teeth.

    "He looks like a first-grader," Razo said.

    Teaching again after years as a

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