Teacher Pay Cuts

I’m a 10th-grader at Belmont High School and I’m really upset about cutting teachers’ salaries. We don’t want teachers to work so hard and to get paid less money. All of my teachers are very upset about that. All of my teachers feel demoralized because of their salaries being cut.

In addition, all of my classes are getting larger. Before, there were about 35 students in each class. Now, there are about 45 or more. All of my friends are upset too. We walked from the school to City Hall to protest. We were a lot of students walking all the way down 2nd Street. The government says that we are the future. But, if the LAUSD Board of Education cuts our teachers’ salaries and raises class sizes, what kind of future can we have?

EDWIN HENRIQUEZ

Los Angeles