Quebec students full of ignorance!

The $1,625 tuition increase over the next five years, in Quebec, got the students out on the streets protesting. This is now the longest student protest in all of Quebec history and not the most peaceful protest either. There has been numerous arrests and injuries and riot control is all over Montreal and Quebec City. Not only are the protesters annoying the government they are also pissing of normal people trying to get places. This is really bad in Montreal where already half the roads are closed for construction and now even more are closed because of these protests. This shows that these students are very inconsiderate of other people, they even go and disrupt classes which have students that are fine with the tuition increase.

Professor contracts require that the semester ends June 15th which is leading to some Universities to say that the students that don't go back to school for the deadline will be jeopardising their semester. The Université de Montréal, Quebec’s largest university, announced Wednesday that it will extend the term into May for students who have already returned to class. At the same time, it said it can no longer guarantee students who haven’t returned that they will be able to finish their semesters. Groups representing around 25 per cent of Université de Montréal are still on strike.At the province’s second largest university, Québec à Montréal (UQAM), groups representing around half the student population are still on strike. There, the board of directors has made a plan that allows students to return as late as April 16 with the semester ending June 3.

Neither of Quebec’s large English-language universities, Concordia and McGill, plan to extend their semesters. Some of the largest student groups at those schools voted against the strikes. CEGEP courses must by law be 82 days long. Some CEGEPs have cancelled some or all summer classes to accommodate an extended term. One of them, College de Valleyfield, has told students that they must return to classes on April 12. This shows that the majority of protesting students are francophone and not english.

What doesn't make sense to me is that 200,000 students are still protesting compared to the original 300,000 because they think that there should be no tuition increase. But while they are protesting they are skipping school that they are paying for, if they fail the semester they will have to pay to redo it and who knows they might not even be accepted into the school to redo the semester. Besides Quebec has the lowest tuition fees in all of Canada at around $2,600 while Ontario students pay $7,600 and something. This is a huge difference and why not pay the extra $1,625 to have better schooling? Or instead of having a sell phone that costs $100 a month, get rid of it and then you wouldn't have a problem. Students have to learn to make sacrifices and that you have to work for the things you want and that mommy and daddy wont always be there to treat you as their prince or princess.

Info taken from Macleans