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Chinatown teachers try to stamp out rumors about LAUSD teachers' strike
Helen Han, a Mandarin-language teacher at Castelar Elementary School in L.A.'s Chinatown, helped lead a rally in support of the teachers' strike.
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Chinatown teachers try to stamp out rumors about LAUSD teachers' strike
With each passing day of the LAUSD strike, Helen Han has gotten increasingly worried that some of the school district's Chinese-speaking families don't fully understand why she and other teachers are striking.
That fear was realized when one student's father yelled at her in Cantonese.
"He got really upset and said, 'You guys should go back to work!'" said Han, who teaches Mandarin at Castelar Elementary School in Chinatown. "He was saying, 'I send kids to get educated, not to be babysitted.'"
Han said some immigrant parents incorrectly think that teachers are getting paid during the strike while their children miss out on schooling. To clear up any misperceptions, Han and several other Mandarin-language teachers on Friday morning led a rally outside Castelar, as parents dropped off students.
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