Kindergarten teacher Kimberly Haim is working on her message for the picket line. It’s a quiz for Superintendent Austin Beutner asking what kids deserve. Her answer: smaller classes and more counselors.

“I don’t think anyone got into the profession to watch a kid struggle,” Haim said of the current conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District, where teachers are poised to walk out Thursday in the first strike in three decades.

Haim is the author behind a viral post on Facebook she wrote as an open letter to Beutner. Her letter mentions a suicidal third grader she had in her class three years ago. She said he couldn’t get in to see the counselor, who was only on campus one day a week. Few LAUSD campuses have a fulltime nurse or counselor.

“She didn’t have the time to meet with him so I was handed this list of free counselor services in L.A. County and that was what I shared with (his) mom and that was as far as we were able to help him,” Haim said.

Since her former student left the school, parents at Haim’s school, Colfax Elementary, have raised money to hire a full-time counselor. LAUSD has also expanded its suicide prevention efforts by training all staff members on what to do if a kid needs help and every campus now has a designated “suicide prevention liaison” to help assess children who need help.

Haim is open about the strike and the issues facing schools with her 9-year-old daughter who won’t be crossing the picket line. Ella even went along wither mom to pick up supplies to make protest signs.

“I really love school and I love being with my friends and my teacher and it’s sad to not know how long it’s going to go on for,” Ella said. “It’s kind of scary.”

On Monday, the district offered to spend $105 million toward hiring more staff, but says meeting teachers’ demands for smaller classes across the board would bankrupt LAUSD.

The teachers' union, UTLA, disagrees and wants district officials to tap into $1.9 billion in reserve funds.

When it comes to understanding the dire situation at schools across Los Angeles County, Haim said her superintendent is failing the quiz. On her poster, she gave him a big, red “F.”