Where to Send Your Kids While Chicago Teachers Strike

While signs were directing parents inside, crossing the picket lines to get into the school has not been easy for some.

“You feel kinda bad because I support the teachers, but at the same time they called me in for work, so I’m gonna work,” said parent Brianne Kelly.

“We want to take him in, if it’s not OK, my wife will take him home,” said parent Yngshi Ko.

Ray Elementary school is using non-union employees to help with their kids. The key staff are assistant principals from surrounding schools familiar with the students.

But John Cusick, a fifth grade teacher at Ray, says that is not good enough for his students, and that’s why he is on strike.

“Ask us what works in the classroom, ask us what works in the schools. They don’t listen to us anymore at all, that’s why we’re out here, Mister Brizard will come and go, just like Mr. Duncan, Mr. Vallas, Mr. Mazany, Mr. Huberman has come and go, I’m still in my classroom in a Chicago public school,” Cusick said.

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