Teachers, why don't you go back to the drawing board, and fix your schools. It costs money to run a school, wasteful spending and non effective teaching taps into a finite commodity called, money..tax money...I'm surprised that an "educator" does not have a concept of this..So instead of using our children as pawns in your protests, why don't you "educate yourselves" .Unless you can find educators to work for free, have the gas and electrical and food charges to run a school waived, you have to learn to operate within your means....Due to no oversight (thanks to the isolation from accountability, complements of the UTLA) for the past 20 years, you as a place of learning have shamefully spiraled to the point of becoming a bloated, uninspiring, inefficient and ultimately ineffective mess. For this reason the public is racing towards charter schooling and if fortunate enough to be able to afford it, private schooling all together..Shame on you for clouding the issues..you should be apologizing to all of those parents who are afraid for the quality of their children's education. Just as a private company has to answer to running itself efficiently, so do you..we already have the HIGHEST paid teachers in the country, If your way of doing the business in the teaching of our children is broken, more money wont fix it...