We want 'em to sing with us. We want 'em to sing out.

Teacher tenure is a myth, ... California teachers only have basic due process rights so they aren't fired for arbitrary reasons like speaking out on behalf of textbooks for their students. Proposition 74 just adds millions in costs to the current evaluation system and does absolutely nothing to improve education or help students.

We are so left out.

They want us to stay put until they know for sure it is safe for us to go back in.

I was raised by my grandma and grandpa in Florida. My grandpa was a Primitive Baptist minister, and all of these ladies, I know. This is like coming home. It's a joy to experience this young girl going through what she needs to go through to get to a place of comfort. To watch someone grow up and the village extend itself to her.

They need to talk to me and they need to talk to other support folks who are making poverty wages. Most of them are working so they can have health care benefits.