Evergreen support staff continuing strike, calls school district's tactics 'disrespectful'

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2. A few years ago....

In Eugene the school district took all their paraprofessional jobs a few years ago and cut most to half time. I met with teachers there who had a dozen or so paraprofessionals. The paras worked half a day, then other ones came in and worked the second half of the day. All this so that nobody qualified for health insurance.

District's don't blink at paying the uppity ups 100s of 1000s of dollars and pay for lunches, cars, travel, but they won't pay their paras enough to afford to eat at McDonalds.