San Francisco schools chief Maria Su was blasted for shedding “crocodile tears” while discussing school closuresbecause of the teachers’ strike— as it was revealed she rakes in $385,000 a year while sending her kids to private school.
Su came under intense scrutiny this week as Bay Area public school teachershit the picket linesover pay increases and better benefits. The strike ended Friday.
The schools chief — who earns five times more than a 10-year teacher with tenure — choked up Feb. 6 while discussing the impending strike and its impact on students “with the greatest needs.”
But she also dodged questions about making significantly more than her teachers — and also refused to answer a question about her own kids attending private school,KTVU reported.
“I’m a mom, I have kids, I know the importance of education,” Su replied.
“I know the importance of our teachers having fair and competitive and livable wages,” she said. “It is expensive to be here in the city.”
Su sat on her pile of cash while teachersstood on the San Francisco picket linefor nearly a week before they landed a 5% raise for teachers over two years on Friday. The teachers also got their healthcare demands approved, receiving fully funded healthcare contributions for dependents.
Teachers didn’t have much sympathy for Su during the process of the strike — one picket sign on a wet day Tuesday said,according to the San Francisco Standard, “Is this rain or Maria Su’s crocodile tears pretending she cares about our kids?”
An eighth-grade science teacher in the area, Jennifer Erskine-Ogden, held the sign.
“Give me a break,” she told the San Francisco Standard about the tears. “It’s just fake.”
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