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Mr Spencer. What is it that you as parents want to see done here at this school? Well for number one, we want to see our kids, you know, get a better education and uh the schools to be fixed up in order, you know for the kids

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you know to have a decent place in a safe place to go to school. And we would love to have a male principle. If we could get a male principle, we want a male principle. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. What

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is it that made the teachers and the parents come together to go out on strike here. The school was not ready for us to take the Children in on thursday. There were conditions that hadn't been improved since last year. I have a heater in my room

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that has an open flame. The guiding teacher in my room had her coat catch on fire from that heater. And I think if we have a responsible adult in the room who is put in that kind of a situation, what's going to happen to our Children

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in those rooms? Were concerned over the safety of the Children in this school? Did you tell the school board in advance of the opening of school that you might strike if some of these things weren't taken care of? We did. We went down with a group

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of parents and teachers, about 60 people in all. I met with dr Rhodes explain the conditions out here, invited him to come out here and look at the conditions and they're working on him. But things have not been met to our satisfaction sen attendance on the

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picket line today and the community support has been outstanding. We've never seen the community support that we've had today and we're very, very pleased with it. On thursday the first day of school there was no door knob on my classroom door. And because there were some

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older Children in the schoolyard who don't belong to the school they came into the room and as Children do they were playing and one slammed the door locked himself And the class in the room. Since there was no door. No we could not get out. And

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it was about 15-20 minutes before I could contact one of the workmen outside who was returning from lunch to let him know we were locked in that we needed some help to get out. Workmen are still busy here at Sir Francis drake school and the C.

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T. A. Rep. And the union representatives said that they would recommend to their teachers that they not go back to work until all repairs are finished here at Sir Francis drake velvet Davis for eyewitness news san Francisco.