{"id":174800,"date":"2026-02-12T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174800\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:57:08","slug":"san-francisco-parents-hold-virtual-roundtable-to-talk-about-ongoing-teachers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174800\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco parents hold virtual roundtable to talk about ongoing teachers&#8217; strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-francisco-unified-teachers-strike-day-3-february-11-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">teachers&#8217; strike in the San Francisco<\/a> Unified School District is about to go into its fourth day, and many parents are feeling frustrated about how their families are stuck in the middle of the contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>So, they held a virtual roundtable Wednesday night to share their frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students shouldn&#8217;t have to bear the burden of all of these adult disagreements,&#8221; parent Alex Wong said. &#8220;Every person involved in these negotiations needs to be working at being at the bargaining table every hour of every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re asking both sides to negotiate with the urgency that our kids deserve because every day matters to our kids&#8217; education,&#8221; parent Meredith Dodson added.  <\/p>\n<p>Some parents shared stories, such as Bridget Blounx, a grandmother and caregiver of three children, some with special needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though I&#8217;m working remote, I&#8217;m having to stop in between my client interviews and intakes to answer questions and to try to triage and help navigate the kiddos with their different work,&#8221; Blounx said.<\/p>\n<p>While parents say it&#8217;s imperative to get kids back in the classroom now, Wilbur Liu, a Lowell High School student, also agrees. <\/p>\n<p>He appreciated the break, but he feels it&#8217;s important to be back in school, at least by next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, it doesn&#8217;t go on for too long. Obviously, no one likes losing out on too much learning,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teachers&#8217; strike in the San Francisco Unified School District is about to go into its fourth day,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,33193,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-174800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-san-francisco-unified-school-district","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}