It’s Tuesday afternoon and Paul Robak is returning to his Lomita home. His flexible schedule is a perk many parents don’t have.

Robak’s two children are on winter break. While they’re out of school, he’s still thinking about what to tell them about the impending teachers strike.

If teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District do walk out, he thinks it’s important for his kids to witness the strike firsthand.

“To have them experience how it feels to walk up to their school and see a picket line with their teachers holding signs, I think it’s important for them to have that life experience,” he said.

• RELATED: LAUSD Superintendent Says 'We Believe There Is a Path to Avoid a Strike'

LAUSD leaders held a news conference Tuesday to respond to a new state-ordered neutral fact-finding report addressing the current dispute between the school district and United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing teachers.

The report recommended that the district adopt a six percent salary increase.

LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner said at the news conference that he is willing to negotiate.

"The first thing we are telling parents is that we believe there is a path to avoid a strike," said Beutner. "That state has told us, this framework is what we and UTLA should be able to sit down, complete our bargaining and keep kids in school."

But the teachers union fired back by accusing district officials of failing to negotiate in good faith.

"Throughout the last 20 months of bargaining, LAUSD has given almost no legitimate proposals," said UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl said in a statement.

As for Robak, he just wants the two sides to come to an agreement.

“If we go on strike. Everybody loses,” he said.