'We don't get the recognition, but we still want to be respected,' Tracey Thornhill said. 'We still want to be treated like human beings. We don't want to be treated like trash. We were told we are essential. We answered the call.'
Custodian Anton Jennings cleans a water fountain in the first-floor hallway of the state Capitol in Sacramento, California, on March 18, 2020."We're important. We know it. I think after this dies down, the rest of the world will know, too," said Derrick Fields, 50, the head custodian at Medina Middle School in Columbus, Ohio.
"They deserve support. They deserve respect. They deserve leadership from the White House that is as competent and compassionate as they are," Saunders said."They deserve gloves and gowns, masks and swabs, respirators and ventilators so they can get the job done safely right now when we need that professionalism and expertise more than ever."
Other custodians in the district are helping to prepare meals for kids who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, but they're doing it with a third of the workforce after the school district laid off a large chunk of the staff a few years ago.
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