Teachers across the Los Angeles Unified School District are trying to adjust to teaching their students from virtual classrooms and Alex Caputo-Pearl, President of United Teachers Los Angeles tells Inside the Issues some are struggling with district requirements. Many are juggling teaching from home while taking care of their own families.
“So, when we get a decree from an administrator, to do duplicative record-keeping or provide super detailed lesson plans, for no one else other than the administrator, or asking for multiple faculty meetings in a week which never happens in regular school, we are going to push back against those because our members need to be focused on the students and on their family,” he said.
Many teachers are also up against a lack of technology for their students who are sometimes unable to attend class because they don’t have the proper equipment.
“One thing is for certain and that is that brick-and-mortar schools with human beings together, in a collective effort to learn - that is always going to be the foundation of schooling,” he said. “This distance learning thing is going to be temporary, we have to make sure it's temporary, and we need to then invest in brick-and-mortar schools which bring about real equity.”
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Caputo-Pearl said it was the UTLA that made the call to shut down schools and helped to get on top of coordinating 60 food distribution centers for families in need.
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