The Oxnard Scholars After School Program, previously the Star Program, is a grant funded program through the City of Oxnard. The Oxnard Scholars After School Program staff are here to try to change the wage of the instructors that work for the program. The recent climate of the program has been unstable. The current staff still in the program stay in the program mostly for the love of the program and the programs students. After creating a social-emotional connection with many students, it becomes hard to leave the position. Although many previous employees have moved onto to higher paying jobs. The current wage of all of the instructors is at minimum wage ($15). Our job responsibilities include being a mandated reporter, teaching art, engineering, literacy, math and holistic wellness lessons, creating a rotation system within the program and completing required trainings such as CPR, Concussion, active shooter and lockdown trainings. Now, if you initially read the job responsibilities alone without reading the job title you would assume the job is a teaching position. Would you have expected this type of position gets paid minimum wage? We are here to fight for a pay increase. Our program runs until 6pm and after 4:00pm every office personal from every school will clock out. This leaves the program staff as acting nurses, counselors, principals and teachers. This issue has been made clear to our higher-ups, although we continue to be ignored and belittled. Our higher-ups say that people don’t want to work and we are told to work harder. There are separate programs that work within our After School Program, who get paid far more than our actual staff. These external programs that have been hired to help in our After School Programs, have less responsibilities than our Oxnard Scholars staff. We as instructors ask for the help of our local Oxnard community to come together and vouch for the instructors who teach your students during the After School Hours in achieving an increase in pay.