out of pocket. It's hard to explain, but these are the daily, petty failures that add up over time. The message becomes so clear: You and your students aren't worth it. If nobody had soap--if there was a worldwide soap shortage--then it wouldn't hurt. But it's obvious that some people's children will always have clean hands, and so much more. Some people's children will go to schools with seven full-time art teachers; some children will go to school with none. Some children will go to schools where student-to-teacher ratios are 9-to-1, and some children will go to kindergarten with 42 5-year-old friends and one teacher. Some children will get world languages, social workers and counselors, iPads and music class, libraries, recreational activities, and beauty and joy. And some children simply will get tested, and tested again and again, as they sit in cold classrooms all winter and stifling classrooms during the spring and summer. It's not hard to guess whose children get the things that make school worthwhile and enriching, and whose children don't. Again, this is education policy in the richest country on Earth. The greatest contribution of this strike is highlighting for all to see this injustice being perpetrated upon our children. This strike alone couldn't solve this injustice, but by asserting that all children deserve what Rahm Emanuel's and Penny Pritzker's children get, we have contributed to the building of a movement that, in no small measure, will be able to mobilize the kind of power necessary