West Virginia Walkout: Fed Up with Low Pay, Teachers Take to the Picket Lines


Mark Brenner

“People were just sick and tired of feeling like nobody would pay any attention to them,” said Doris Tuckwiller-Wood, one of 5,000 teachers in 14 different West Virginia counties who went on strike March 14. “We can’t just go back in the classroom and be good little teachers because they threw us a bone,” she continued. “When people didn’t get what they wanted, they started talking about a strike.” About 70,000 students were affected by the one-day walkout. . . .


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