and early this morning a tentative agreement was reached so we think that there is going to be a contract right now at this exact minute representatives from each school arm meeting and if a majority of them approve this tentative agreement t strike will be suspended and we'll report back to school tomorrow no students tomorrow will be back in the building getting it ready again and the school district will be gearing up and then on thursday what we've been waiting for the students will be back in classes and we'll be doing what we've been wanting to do all along which is is that we've had a lot of popular support in the community we've tried to be extra clear about why we were doing this all the reasons that we were doing it and so we've had students come up and parents come up they've brought us lunch on many days foods and snack they've marched with us so we feel like the support is good thing it's fair for us to do these are challenging times for everybody the students in the end will get their complete year of education that's not shorted at all so they still get every single day of education but it is a challenge i recognize during this time for kids and their families during this waiting time when expectations aren't being met in the long run it will even out but yeah these were difficult times for families and children absolutely so what are the main causes of this trying a couple of things i think that were really big issues one of the first things that the union was working for was at the elementary school to ensure a fair amount and a sufficient amount of recess for all kids in our city some kids were getting fifteen minutes some kids were getting an hour of recess and we saw that as an equal and so we asked that the district make a minimum and make it across the board the district also proposed that teachers work longer a challenge around this was that they proposed that to us with just a couple weeks to go and to change the number of minutes you work in a day without much time to think about it and talk about it and and decide what are those minutes going to be for that was a real challenge and it was very hard for me to accept someone saying you're just going to work thirty more minutes no more pay you're just have these more responsibilities here so that was really hard and apparently they've come to some agreement and i look forward to that i don't know what that is and then the increases in pay that was part of it to win and money and wage in this city all cities but especially in our expensive city is an issue and that was put certainly part of it to said to meet you suze do you have any input on what's going on or and i just it's it's not a situation anybody ever wants to b n has to be on strike but i work with amazing people and we do really important amazing work and so we feel like like this was something that needed to be done we've been very grateful to have the support from the community that we have we have amazing families really hard working teachers and staff at every level in our building and in our district so we're hoping it's over do you thing the students agree though like so i've heard from some students and most every student that i've heard from has been supportive everybody wants to get is ready for school see your friends get some learning not go too long in the summer so i'm not saying it's easy but they've said we support the teachers and that's helped the feedback that i've heard again it's been mostly through social media so it's been people that i'm friends with who are probably feeling you know similar things that i'm feeling but i've been so heartened by the honking of horns on the street or by the kids waving and it's really you know both the parents and the students are missing school we missed school i worry about kids who are not eating i worry about families that rely on school for access to really important services and that's certainly been present in all of our minds in our conversations as we've been walking so so the honking the lunches the likes on facebook that the sharing of information we read that does not support of missing school but supportive strengthening a system that can really best serve our kids in our city