Strike was symptom of long-term distrust

04-28-2010

By Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

Capistrano Unified School District teachers are proclaiming victory after three days of striking, saying "we can hold our heads high." District officials, meanwhile, are touting a tentative settlement agreement reached with teachers late Monday as “providing consistency and stability” for Orange County’s second-largest school district. Kids make their way back to school to Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Tuesday after the Capistrano Unified teacher ended. "It feels good," said Principal Charles Salter. "It's nice to have everybody back in the fold." But the long-term impacts of the five-day standoff over a 10.1 percent pay cut are probably best described in less rosy terms, observers say. The picketing, the angst, the anger all may be signs of a school community nowhere close to healing, and the fleeting jubilation both sides are feeling in the wake of Monday’s tentative settlement may simply revert to distrust and discontent in the days ahead. (more...)

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