With the reports on Thursday and Friday that the North Penn School Board had rejected an arbitration report and the district teachers had approved a strike starting today, we thought we’d take a look at another time when the teachers walked the picket line.

These two photos were pulled from Reporter files from September 1986, a time when other area school district teachers also decided to “walk the line.”

These photos — snapped by Willard Krieble, who was The Reporter’s chief photographer at the time — show the different sides of the strike.

In one, members of the NPEA walk past school buses while they wear signs that declare “NPEA ON STRIKE” and “NO CONTRACT, NO WORK.”


In the other photo, parents and students wait outside the district administration building, with one parent sporting a sign that reads “NPEA TEACHERS UNFAIR,” as Principal Paul Peters enters the building.


The parents and students were waiting for negotiation teams to arrive.