![]() “I just stretched out a big piece of paper so that we could color on it for the three days and make art, hang out and do our best,” they said. Instead, they are getting creative with how they spend time during the strike and borrowing art supplies from a university office. Courtesy Sea Krobįor safety and liability reasons, Krob cannot take their children into the art lab where they work, so they had to forgo their lab hours this week, they said. Sea Krob's children play on campus this week at California State University, Long Beach. “My partner is out of sick days for the year already – it’s March – so I am on the whims of whatever professor I have to have my kids come with me,” they said. Krob is a full-time graduate student pursuing art at California State University, Long Beach. Some kids have to tag along with their parentsįor Krob, that’s meant notifying individual professors of their situation and asking if they can bring their two children with to classes. This strike has left parents scrambling to find childcare, many cobbling together creative solutions to keep their children on track with school, while also working their full-time jobs. It is the same district that shut down for a six-day strike in 2019, when teachers went to the picket lines to fight for smaller class sizes, more staff and an increase in wages. The stakes are high for school workers, including bus drivers, custodians and other support staff represented by Service Employees International Union Local 99 asking for more equitable wages, more work hours and more staffing to provide better student services. “And it’s not because the workers are striking, but it’s because LAUSD would rather make time to find volunteers and make plans for our kids not to be in school than just meet the needs of the people that they’ve employed.” “It’s really frustrating that the one thing that was supposed to be dependable is not,” Krob, 32, told CNN. They are one of the parents of the half-million students who are out of school for three days because of the Los Angeles Unified School District school worker strike. Tucked into a small art studio at a California university, Sea Krob took their 3-year-old and 7-year-old to graduate school with them because they didn’t have a daycare option this week.
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