Chicago teachers’ strike: Educators want trauma care for students
Strike is about more than pay; teachers demand counsellors for every school to help students deal with daily trauma.
Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets, stopping traffic and circling City Hall in a show support for the ongoing teachers strike [Scott Heins/Getty Images/AFP]
Chicago, Illinois - Chicago Public School social worker Cathy Mizicko hasn't had a "normal day" in her 17 years at Jordan Elementary Community School in Rogers Park, a school on the far north side of the city.
"My day is always different," Mizicko said.
"Our school has a high poverty level, and it's very diverse ... There will be a shooting near one of the student's apartments, so they come in having to deal with that," she told Al Jazeera.
Mizicko is one of the more than 30,...