David China. We just learned within the last couple of minutes that there will be no school tomorrow for PPS students. The district calling that again just moments ago, mediation did resume this morning and PPS officials said in certain the progress has plateaued and there’s still some disagreement on the numbers.
We reached out to the union to get their take on negotiations, their perspective on the current state of things. And meantime, we spoke with students about how they’re feeling at this point in the strike on Tuesday rallies and pickets continue. Portland public schools, teachers still out of school and still on strike.
Students from kindergarten to high school, seniors remain out of the classroom too, filling their time while waiting for a deal, they miss it, they miss their teachers, they miss their classroom and I would say that some of them were doing math just for fun which I love in southeast Portland.
More than 30 kids played at Selwood Park participating in a day camp usually open this time of year. Rachel Lied, Glim runs dance with Joyce studios and reopened it to help out families and back the teachers. I also just hear that they’re confused. This is very confusing. We had the pandemic,
Which was very traumatic for many families and now we have this, they understand that it’s not the teachers that are making the trouble. And I hope other people do too by students of all ages, laced up skates and roller blades at the Oak Park skating rink,
The roller rink extending its hours. So kids like Stella and Billy have a place to go. But as fun as this is, they’re looking forward to going back. It’s nice to have no school. But like, I feel like I’m just like when school gonna start, like,
I kind of just want to start now I get bored really easily. So it’s kind of hard to have this going on. And I also miss a lot of my friends from school. This is my cat birdie across the river.
I’m really happy that this art class is letting kids have something to do. That’s also how several young students say they feel while attending a paint your pet class with the Oregon Society of Artists. I’m like dying. Me and my friends need to get back to school. I’ve heard that it’s similar
Down and I think we might get back to school, like maybe on Wednesday for second graders, they have to be like a lot together and I don’t like it. I’m fine with a three day weekend but not a whole time of strike.
So I feel like it’s better for us to just go back to school. And again, we learned just before 6 p.m. that PS has canceled school for tomorrow due to the strike. Just something for families to keep in mind there will be no school on Wednesday, live in southwest Portland.
Alma mccarty KGW News. Thank you. That will make day nine for us there. Stay with us for the latest on the strike. Look for updates on air on KGW dot com and streaming on KGW.
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