Walkout can have impact
“Spokane teachers approve May 27 strike” reads the headline in the May 21 Spokesman-Review. Spokane School District Superintendent Shelley Redinger says the “walkout impacts our families and community.” Yes, that is the idea. It is supposed to have an impact. The impact should be that all of the affected families should call, write or email their legislators and tell them to vote for the increases in state funding that the Washington Supreme Court has mandated.
They should also insist that the Legislature move to enact the initiative approved by the voters to lower class size. And if the funding is not approved, voters should remember who voted for the funding and who voted against the funding. Then, at election time, they will have information for whom to re-elect to office. The walkout will then “have an impact on the Legislature.”
Curtis Dreese
Spokane