Teachers on strike

I've never picketed before. I've never marched through a building following a wooden coffin and then chanting, "Contract now!" before. It's quite an experience. The San Leandro teachers are pissed off because the district is not giving us the salary we deserve. Apparently we are like at the bottom of the salary schedule in Alameda County. That's pretty pathetic! And then they turn around and give the superintendent a ridiculous raise. How many times do we have to bonk it over their heads that if teachers are miserable because they're having to pay for supplies out of their pocket or they cannot live in the same area as their job because they can't afford to live there, or they can't even buy a home, the students will unfortunately suffer. No one wants these poor kids to suffer but you can't help but be miserable when you can barely afford to have a decent lunch because you spend $30/week on gas! Life is cruelly unfair.....