Victor Valley Daily Press:
BROOKE SELF
STAFF WRITER
Posted Jan. 21, 2015 @ 8:19 pmUpdated Jan 21, 2015 at 8:29 PM
ADELANTO — A four-hour-long meeting got heated Tuesday night as frustrated parents and teachers took on the Adelanto Elementary School District Board of Trustees over stalled teachers union negotiations.
Two newly-seated board members and three incumbent trustees remained mostly stone-faced as parents and young students shared emotional comments asking for the district to settle the teachers’ contract issue and reduce the number of substitutes teaching classes.
“When will this end?” said Lucero Diaz in Spanish, as a translator next to her interpreted. “We’re not negotiating tomatoes and chilies, we’re talking about the education of our children.”
Diaz, 45, is originally from Mexico and is the mother of twins that attend Donald F. Bradach Elementary School. She said parents were “willing to work to help teachers.”
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