As if test scores cannot get any more abysmal in the state of California, reports are circulating that Los Angeles teachers could be announcing a strike sometime today.

According to this, timing is set to coincide with a massive rally in downtown LA involving three major unions. United Teachers Los Angeles, representing about 30,000 “educators” and staffers, Local 99, representing 30,000 support staff, and Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, marking a first for principals and middle managers to potentially join the picket lines.

The union’s contract expired last June, with demands of an average pay boost of 17% over the course of two years. LA Unified has countered with an 8% raise over two years. Why only 8%, you ask? Sure glad you did!

District reserves are shrinking. Financial pressure is mounting due to the end of pandemic aid, declining enrollment, and costly misconduct settlements.”-Daniel Farr, The California Post

Let’s examine the above for a second. Reserves shrinking and the end of pandemic aid. Let’s not talk about the gross mismanagement of funds during the pandemic and well after the pandemic on DEI, SEL and not the usual nuts and bolts of education. Let’s talk about kids who were already behind in reading and math becoming increasingly so after being on lockdown for approximately 700 days. Those who were tired of the BS, unenrolled their students and looked for other avenues to educate their children, hence the decline in enrollment.

Since schools get funding based on enrollment, it would appear that these teachers and their unions who are their mouthpiece cannot math. This wasn’t the first time, however LAUSD teachers threatened walkouts. From last March of 2025:

The L.A. teachers union is defying President Trump by championing DEI policies while demanding pay increases of more than 26 times higher than the current annual pay raise for some teachers.

United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) has called for support of ‘new educators, with targeted investment in the recruitment and retention of BIPOC, multilingual and immigrant educators and service providers’ and ‘strengthened policies to support LGBTQIA+ students, educators and staff.'”–Hank Berrien, The Daily Wire

26 times higher. And, they get their summers off!

43% of LAUSD students met grade-level standards in English, up 1.8 percentage points. Statewide, 47% of students are proficient in English.
In math, 32.8% of Los Angeles students met standards, up 2.3 percentage points from 2023 scores. Statewide, 35.5% of student are proficient.
LAUSD proficiency rates in science reached 24%, up 1.8 percentage from 2023. Statewide it’s 30.7%.”-LATimes

Tell me, do those horrific scores rate a 17% bump in pay (with summers off) over two years? Really, what if they were replaced and never came back?

Education spending continues to rise and student outcomes continue to fall. It’s a national trend. Why isn’t anyone asking questions?

— MAGAPatriotNY (@TrumpPatriotNY) March 18, 2026

It’s not just in Los Angeles. Other districts, including San Diego and Sacramento-area schools, also recently authorized strikes as unions push for improved wages and working conditions.

At least they’re learning from each other. Because the kids certainly are not learning from them.

Oh no! They won’t hear about the 72 genders, “free palestine”, how boys can become girls, “blm”, “fuck ice”, reparations, etc.?

— VeronicaLyn (@VeronicaLyn_T) March 18, 2026

It’s all for the children.

They never cared about the kids.

And they never will.

— Mason Enalta (@MasonEnalta) March 18, 2026

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