Student activists bring laid-off worker back to their school

12-02-2009

By Amina Khan/Los Angeles Times

Miss G is back at Hamilton High! The beloved office worker for the school's two magnets was laid off by the Los Angeles Unified School District in mid-September. "I felt railroaded," Christina Gutierrez, two gold hoops and a stud sparkling from each ear. "I saw something in the mail, and my heart dropped." Gutierrez, who lost her job because of low seniority, cut her losses and found a job at an elementary school. Students, however, were not so willing to let her go. They staged a 500-strong sit-in protest on her last day and eventually petitioned the Board of Education to let her return. Many students, like senior Jimmy Biblarz, had a personal reason to protest Gutierrez's departure. His younger sister, Veronica, had been out sick nearly two months last year and Gutierrez made sure the freshman's homework made it home, and helped her through her first day back. (more...)

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