While San Francisco’s teachers walk the picket line, their students are spending yet another day away from their lessons. However, many kids are finding ways to stay productive.

Although the teachers strike in San Francisco continues, that doesn’t mean all students are sitting home on the couch at home playing video games. At the Merced Manor Reservoir, the Lincoln High Drum Corps is preaching the say “the show must go on.”

With their biggest competition of the year approaching, members of  Lincoln High’s Drum Corps say they can’t afford to stop practicing; so, while their school campus remains quiet and empty as their teachers strike, they’ve found a space at the Merced Manor Reservoir to run their marching music sets.

“Because we’re not at school to practice we have limited access to our instruments we knew about the strike beforehand, so we brought some of our instruments home,” Abigail Park, a Lincoln High student, said.

Lincoln High’s exhibition drill team isn’t staying idle either. They’ve also got a big competition coming up, so there’s no time to waste.

“Even if the strike only lasted one week we’re still losing one week out of the eight weeks left we have until the competition and that is crucial time for us to learn the drills and perfect it and to start on our choreography and our placements,” Zoe Shu-doo, a student, said.

While they miss being on campus, students say they fully support their striking teachers. In fact, drum corps members have even spent time on the picket line this week.

They say their teachers often spend extra time at lunch and after school to help students and deserve what they’re demanding from the district.

“Our teachers here at Lincoln work really hard to make sure we’re getting quality education even when they aren’t getting the support they need in order to teach us to their full potential,” Park said.

“I just hope the teachers get what they want like healthcare. It’s really important then,” Cailyn Tuong, Lincoln High student, said.

Students say they don’t like the idea of missing out on learning but they’re making the best of the strike situation.