The potential of a teachers' strike still looms over parents and grade school students in Alberta, going into week two of the new school year.

Negotiations between the Alberta government and teachers' union broke down late last month, and both sides were still at an impasse over the weekend, seemingly waiting for the other to make the first move.

"Our entire family is on hold," said Adina Green, a mother of two sons, ages nine and 15 respectively.

The family doesn't pay for daycare or after-school care, and will rely on retired relatives to help if a strike does happen, she said. But those family members are on standby until then.

Green recognizes there has to be three-days' notice before a strike or lockout occurs, but she said her biggest fear is she'll wake up one morning and the te

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