Some worry about learning loss on heels of pandemic. Others say students are getting a lesson in the power of collective action.
For Service Employees International Union Local 99 member Paola Fonseca, staging ato draw attention to the plight of some of the lowest-paid employees in the Los Angeles Unified School District is an action worth standing up for.
“He has a hard time adjusting because he’s very routine-based,” she continued. “But if he misses a day due to a strike … getting him back on his regular schedule is a challenge not just for us or him, but his teacher too, when he .” It’s not only special-education students who may be struggling with interruptions brought on by this week’s strike, though.
Pedro Noguera, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, said if students had not just gone through the last few years of pandemic-related interruptions, a three-day strike would be a minor blip. But this latest round of school closures, coming on the heels of the pandemic, represents not only potential learning loss, but time lost for children to socialize.
“They’re often very anxious about their performance,” Noguera said. “They might become even more so because they’re not in school.”
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