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Students in Saskatoon are planning a walkout and protest Tuesday afternoon to call on the provincial government to invest in long-term funding for education.
The walkout is organized by several student council presidents from Saskatoon Public Schools and Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools, with the walkout running from 12:15 pm to 3:20 pm and a protest outside Sask. Don Morgan Office MLA party starts at 12:30pm
The organizing committee behind the walk said that students had felt the effects of underfunding and overcrowding in schools and that they felt they had been silenced and ignored by the government.
“With our learning being disrupted and extracurricular activities being cancelled, we don’t feel like we’re getting the services and experiences expected from the school system,” said Kunj Patel, one of the walkout organizers. out
“We also want to see our teachers, who often go above and beyond the demands of their jobs for us, receive the support they need from the province in terms of the complexity and size of classrooms.”
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This move has been picking up steam on Instagram, with a number of schools jumping on board to ensure their voices are heard.
“As students, we hope that this protest highlights the concerns of students in Saskatoon and shows the public and government that students are not a passive presence in the discourse surrounding their education,” he said. organizer Abbie Shynkaruk.
The committee said that it does not take missing class lightly but that the impact of this walkout and protest will outweigh the time lost.
Saskatchewan teachers are currently engaged in the longest educator job action in the province’s history in an attempt to put the issues of class size and complexity on the bargaining table. Teachers across the state have cut extracurricular activities, scrapped midday supervision and engaged in rotating one-day strikes in a bid to shake up the government.
The latest move by the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation (STF) has been to call on the government to agree to binding arbitration. The move would bring a neutral third party to the bargaining table that would provide recommendations to the province and union.
The government’s bargaining committee has rejected binding arbitration and remains adamant that addressing issues of classroom size and complexity should remain with local school boards.
— with files from Brooke Kruger
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