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    Anita Chabria: This teachers' strike is not just about money. It's about respect for public education

    A few weeks ago, Sacramento teacher Kacie Go had 56 kids for second period. That day, there were 109 students at her eighth- through 12th-grade school who were without an instructor because of staff shortages. So she crammed the students into her room and made it work, but "it's not sustainable," she said. No kidding. Go told me the story standing with hundreds of other teachers and support ...
    by Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times Mar 31, 2022 5 minutes
    In recent weeks, school districts from Nevada to Rhode Island have shifted to remote instruction in part because so many teachers were quarantining, districts couldn’ t track down enough qualified adults to cover their classes.

    A few weeks ago, Sacramento teacher Kacie Go had 56 kids for second period.

    That day, there were 109 students at her eighth- through 12th-grade school who were without an instructor because of staff shortages. So she crammed the students into her room and made it work, but "it's not sustainable," she said.

    No kidding.

    Go told me the story standing with hundreds of other teachers and support staff Tuesday morning in the parking lot of an empty high school, as "We're Not Gonna Take It" blared from speakers and the mostly female workers gathered for day six of a strike that has closed down schools in the Capitol City.

    Like Go, these teachers, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and instructional aides are fed up with being. It's a problem that goes beyond the Sacramento City Unified School District, with 48,000 students in 81 schools. Frustration among

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