MONTREAL – Students at Royal West Academy have taken to the Internet to support their teachers, even as they fight budget cuts by implementing work to rule, cancelling all extra-curricular activities.
Karley McIlwaine, Taylor Morganstein, Chloe Ginsberg and Liam Pantis, all Secondary Five students, created a video called #LiftTheBan.
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The goal: to remind the province that “teachers are so much more than are made out to be by the government” and so they “deserve a revision of the proposed contract.”
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The Quebec government has given teachers a .02 per cent increase in pay, which works out to a pay cut because of inflation.
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Teachers had imposed work to rule as a pressure tactic.
“Unfortunately, this means teachers will no longer have any involvement with anything other than their required 32 hours per week,” the students wrote.
“Consequently, students all across Quebec are being punished.”
The video finishes with a plea for the government to “respect” its teachers so students can continue having “the high school experience we deserve.”
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