• anachrohack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Doesn’t seem like a good time, strategically? Like they’re at the end of the school year, a lot of what teachers do in May is clerical work. Most lessons are over by exam time. Unless someone knows something I don’t

      • anachrohack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        still seems short. Maybe the strategy is to strike just before exam week, so parents put pressure on administrators for fear of exam grades suffering?

        • zabadoh@ani.socialOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          If that’s the logic, then there’s never a good time to strike is there?

          “Oh no, won’t someone think of the children?”
          Or more generally “Oh no, won’t someone think of the suppliers’ workers who will be idled, and consumers of our workplace’s product who will be inconvenienced?”

          edit: Also, I don’t know if you attended a Bay Area public high school, but student walkouts and teacher strikes are a regular feature.

          I remember we had a couple of those when I was in public high school.

          • anachrohack@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            I think you misunderstand me. I think they will have a higher impact and be MORE disruptive if had the strike toward the beginning of the year, so they have more time. As it is now, admins can just wait them out for a month and then summer break starts

            • zabadoh@ani.socialOPEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              It’s just a 1 day strike to send a message to the OUSD administration, not the kind of thing where they’ll stay out until their demands are met.