Families brace for teachers strike at Sacramento City Unified schools on Thursday
With Sacramento teachers set to strike Thursday, Joey Rincon said she will support them: She plans to keep her kids out of school and bring them with her to work, a local diner where she waits tables.
It will be disruptive, Rincon said Tuesday after dropping her children off at David Lubin Elementary School in East Sacramento. But “teachers care for my kids, teachers educate my kids.”
“It’s a huge job and they’re way underpaid,” Rincon said, adding with a laugh that her children “will figure out something to do quietly at the table.”
Families of the 42,000 students in the Sacramento City Unified School District are bracing for a one-day strike announced by the Sacramento City Teachers Association, which alleges the district has engaged in unfair labor practices. It would be the union’s first strike in 30 years.
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