Advocacy for students has been central to negotiations and despite having to organize childcare on the wing,locals have brought food and encouragement to picketing teachersEleven kids, 25 quesadillas and two days into Seattle’s first major teacher’s strike in 30 years, and David Seawell’s child-wrangling duties were done for the day Thursday night. With parents rushing to find final-minute childcare,Seawell and four other families from Hawthorne Elementary collaborated to create an ad hoc childcare collective a creative solution for a situation that took many by surprise.
Despite the inconvenience, Seawell fully supports the teachers entering the third day of a strike that kept kids home on their first days back at school.
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Source: theguardian.com