bigi teachers still waiting for a contract gathered yesterday to prepare for a rally held earlier today at the lake buiji Waterfront reporter Zarah Simmons had had a chance to speak to some of the members of the bigi Education Association on Gathering the community's support once bigi Education Association teachers put their mind to something they say they won't stop until they get it we hope to give the districts the idea that we're not going to back down and we're not going to go away like We
Are One we are united and we deserve to be paid for the work we're doing um it's it's that idea of if not now when there's a substantial amount of money coming in from the state of Minnesota for the first time ever and I feel like for many years now teachers have taken a back seat to the programs that we want to bring into the district and the funding that it takes to bring those and the busing that we pay for in buiji and so it's kind of this idea that with this extra funding that's coming in i
t's kind of our turn you know we've supported this District we've taken the back seat for long enough the main concern for the Bea was letting the community know what was going on behind close doors kind of rally together as teachers and to get the community involved and make sure that they know um I think we have a lot of community members that maybe don't know that this is happening behind the scenes that you've got teachers working for 260 plus days without a contract um so just to like raise
some Community awareness and some Community Support behind their teachers and that we're you know hoping to come to the table next week and reach an agreement but that we're ready to stand together if that doesn't happen it's reassuring that we have a turnout here and I think that is causing us to be hopeful what we really want is just a fair contract so as much work as we need to put in to do that we'll do but we're hoping to reach some sort of agreement soon reporting in beiji I'm Zar Simmons
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