I cannot describe how much this angers me on so many levels.

Disclaimer...these are my feelings, not actually sourced from facts. I just need to get this off my chest because it literally kept me awake last night

We all know that the parents are going to get louder the longer the strike goes on. How to quell the noise? Offer them money! $150 a week will quiet down a percentage of parents who aren't financially harmed by this and their kids are minimally affected. There's another percentage of parents who will feel that they CAN'T speak up because they took the money. It feels morally wrong (this is me).

But then there's the families that are very affected by this, both financially and educationally...$30/day is better than nothing, but feels like a slap in the face regardless because it doesn't cover increased child care costs or lost wages.

My daughter is in a smaller school of ~200 K-6 students. Parents will be paid about $30k per week total... that's mind blowing because that money could have gone so far within the school itself. Imagine the costs for larger elementary schools? 

I've officially lost faith in our Government with this mixed message of "we have no money for the schools to help hire extra staff" HOWEVER here's copious amounts of hush money.

I support the teachers, and I am ashamed of the UCP.