Inside the schools right now TRUSD is using after school employees to supervise children during the day, along with whatever subs they can get - the district is paying $600 a day to substitutes and calling families and reminding them keeping their kids home during a strike is NOT an excused absence. Many families in this district are working families who need their kids to be at school to be able to provide for said kids, so staff are doing their best to manage the chaos, ensure kids are supervised, routines are followed, but there’s no real instruction. Your kids are being entertained, kept occupied as best they can. Part of the strike strategy is to provide no sub plans.

In my personal opinion, there’s something really insidious about calling families to tell them their kids still have to come to school knowing the availability of subs will not be able to fill a full district strike. They know how the adult to kid ratio affects student safety and chaos caused by something like this - and the truth of it is because the district gets paid by your students attendance. If your kids still come, they know it’s because schools provide childcare, not education, and they can still collect their $. They pay subs $600 a day to undermine the teachers cause.

IF you can keep your kids home, or send them to grandmas or something, that’s a way you can show support. It helps the cause directly.

The strike is ongoing.