tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362648620673810271.post8950890576958331714..comments2012-01-25T19:29:44.016-08:00Comments on Yucaipa-Calimesa Teachers: Way To Go Kathryn!Yucaipa-Calimesa Teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00230986156953960795noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362648620673810271.post-75610491593617886612007-04-27T05:39:00.000-07:002007-04-27T05:39:00.000-07:00Way to go Kathryn, as always your comments are wel...Way to go Kathryn, as always your comments are well timed and well written. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362648620673810271.post-89777147544735668552007-04-26T22:31:00.000-07:002007-04-26T22:31:00.000-07:00Thanks for your support Kate!Thanks for your support Kate!Yucaipa-Calimesa Teachershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230986156953960795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362648620673810271.post-90867582913821498082007-04-26T18:31:00.000-07:002007-04-26T18:31:00.000-07:00Hello Kathryn,I am writing to you on my first day ...Hello Kathryn,<BR/><BR/>I am writing to you on my first day back in the classroom after our 10 day extraordinarily excruciatingly painful and glorious (yes, both) strike in Hayward. (See You Tube and search: husd strike) Today I am living in a different universe then when we began. I can't explain it in words. I was running on adreneline, fear, hope, dispair and most of all shere and utter determination to stick it out. Fortunately, 98% of my colleagues stayed resoulutely on the picket line. The ace up our sleeve, beyond teacher solidarity, was the unprecedented support and incredible organization of our working class and largely, though not exclusively, latino community. If you can stick together, teachers and community, and you hang on to the belief that you WILL be victorious, you will win. All my prayers and leftover energy are with you. I will continue to monitor your struggle. Oakland teachers took personal and sick days off from work to join us on the picket line. I will do the same for you, if it comes to that. I will also send $ to your strike fund (and raise more from our union members) as so many districts around us did. Keep strong and united, bottom line: eyes on the prize. Your cause is just. In solidarity,<BR/>Kate Day<BR/>Park Elementary School<BR/>Hayward, CaliforniaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com