By Doug Cunningham

As teachers and students prepare to return to the nation’s classrooms a California teacher’s rock band called the Angry Tired Teachers will be taking their “Stick It To The Man” attitude with them. The ten-year-old band played live on the Hayward, California teacher’s strike picket lines and at protest rallies before the strike. Band member Andy Knight.

[Knight1]: “The union got this idea of getting the band a flat bed truck to go around and play at the different schools to boost morale and get teachers fired up on the strike line. So we did a little tour. We called it the Stick It To The Man Tour."

Knight says the band plans to support San Francisco teachers as they gear up for a possible strike. He says the Angry Tired Teachers’ spirited music can build solidarity by bringing teachers together.

[Knight2]: “We thought of it as a mission of the Angry Tired Teacher band to play and play really loud. All of a sudden people enjoyed us at these rallies. And it really picked people up and brought people together."