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LETTER: Your children's teachers are sacrificing their pay for greater cause

The Editor,

Re: "Full-scale strike may be next," the Now, June 12.

I am a teacher in Langley and a resident of Surrey. I am giving up my fourth day of pay today because I believe in better quality education for children in British Columbia.

Some people think that teachers are using students as pawns, keeping them out of school so that we can fight for higher salary. The reality is, I won't have enough money to pay for my July rent. I am a single mother with two children.

Tracey Clayton, Surrey