Teaching in Los Angeles
Who among us, with a life preserver within reach, would just stand by and watch a person drown?
Lantos wrote that “The public school system is sinking, and I’m clinging to the wreckage. . . . A strike looms in February unless $300 million can be found. Where will it come from?” The strike looms, of course, because the district can meet its payroll only by cutting 12% from teachers’ salaries.
Many of us value education and our teachers, and we have the necessary life preserver to save the drowning school district: We can just write a check.
I urge everyone who can to join me in writing a check to cover what, under more inspired leadership, would have been our fair share of school funding. I’m sending my check in care of the United Teachers-Los Angeles so that the teachers will know that I care enough about them and education that I’m willing to share the burden.
RUTH PERSKY
Los Angeles
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