Posted on 01/14/2019 5:01:58 PM PST by EdnaMode
Celebrities are showing their support for Los Angeles teachers, who walked off the job Monday, the union’s first strike in 30 years.
After nearly two years of talks, negotiations, talks between officials at the Los Angeles United School District and the United Teachers Los Angeles union broke down Friday over issues of wages, the expansion of charter schools, class sizes and staffing levels. Approximately 30,000 UTLA members, including school nurses and librarians as well as teachers are off the job as of today with about 500,000 students affected. Charter and private schools in L.A. are not affected by the strike.
Among the celebs voicing support for teachers are Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis, who tweeted “Standing in support and solidarity with Emily Reyes, another local Los Angelina and proud member of @laschools on strike for a modest wage increase but more importantly, SMALLER CLASS SIZE! Honk in support!”
The walkout struck a personal note for comedian Kathy Griffin. “My sister, who died last year after battling cancer, was a schoolteacher for decades,” Griffen tweeted. “I know how hard she worked to make sure her students were prepared for the world. I stand with #UTLA @UTLAnow!!!
Following below are those tweets and others, including Ike Barinholtz, Rachel Bloom, Fortune Feimster and Marlee Matlin ,among many more.
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Everybody should take their school children over to the celebrities houses for daycare... No wait... They’ll get fondled over there! Disregard my last...
Professionals do not abandon their duties.
“Charter and private schools in L.A. are not affected by the strike.”
:)
Striking L.A. teachers is against the law. Striking anybody is called assault. oh wait . . . they meant something else. nevermind.
This is happening in progressive CA. In Los Angeles, which is probably the most progressive county/area in the country.
This isn't happening in some Republican county or even in a Rat stronghold in a Redstate (I'm talking to you, Milwaukee). There's no evil Republican Governor or evil GOP-controlled Legislature to blame here.
So why, exactly, is this happening?
Any day your child is not in a public school classroom is one day the child will not be indoctrinated by the leftist.
End public education.
Having gone through grade school and high school, Im all for striking teachers. Will they need a donation of baseball bats? ;-)
Nah.
But they are willing to force you to do so.
Do they send money to these schools?
Nah.
But they willing to force you to send more.
How bold! How brave! How demanding and difficult that was!
I was thinking the same thing. Isn’t that some kind of libtard utopia there?
I was wondering if any of these celebrities or their children ever attended LA public schools... I really doubt Jamie Lee Curtis did. (not sure if she had kids?)
Barely 40% graduation rate? I’d fire the whole bunch of them. What a total waste of taxpayers’ money. Fire the whole bunch of them.
Hollywood supports child abuse.
Hollywood hurts children.
And I’d bet that most of these “professionals” go along with the sanctuary cities rot. Then they complain about “overcrowded” classrooms. The irony! The precious little immigrants are coming in through the porous borders faster than the schools can find seats for them.
Oh nooooo, I agree with celebrities...... accckkkkkkk....
Duh!....lol....one of the perks of being a rich celebrity ...
I was smart enough at 15 to BEG to get out of an LA elite private school.
The most unkempt, Ill-behaved kids were some of the wealthiest, with the busiest executive parents. I loved that the kids there were so smart. The humor was the best. But some of them were not living in the real world. Shopping was boring for those kids; they found it more fun to shoplift - even if you could afford what you were stealing. And trick or treating in Bel Air is not as fun as it sounds! Climbing 20 minutes uphill between each house for the same dang snickers you got in a normal neighborhood was not effective at all!
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