that is the sole reason you re seeing this strike. so many teachers say this is not about the money, but it really is about the money when you talk about the union versus the district. i was a student at lasd many years ago, i got up to sixth grade in public school at paul revere, and my sixth grade teacher pulled my parents aside and said if you can afford it, go to private school. but what that has done is it has taken a lot of the students out of the system and put them in charter schools where they can test into it or into private schools.