I don’t agree with the term dishonest. After all the students have every right to defend their rights. I would like to ask a genuine question: why did the govt. have to lift the tuition fee freeze in the first place. The provincial govt. has a lot of income generating resources. They can easily raise the amount of grant to various educational institutions in order to keep the extra burden off of the country’s future workforce. Even a small burden on the already cash strapped students can take a toll on their grades or worse can force them to drop out.
I fail to understand that why these educational institutions and the govt. can’t leave the students alone and let them study in peace. In one instance a question has been asked that is it worth to skip classes for a paltry increase in tuition fees. I would like to put light on last year’s Ontario College Teachers strike. The students lost 2 months of valuable study time. The semester was never extended to provide extra classes, which compromised the quality of education to a great extent. The evaluation standard in some colleges was unfair. And on top of that, the students never received any refund for this downtime. All this happened due to the indifferent attitude of the provincial govt. and if due attention was paid at an appropriate time; the conflict would have been resolved in the first week itself.
Some students work more than one part time job to pay for their tuition fees and other expenses and merely break even at the end of the semester. In my view this protest can be rightly given the name of a strike as the students should do everything to convey their message that they do not want any tuition fee hikes, even though it’s a small amount.
I fail to understand that why these educational institutions and the govt. can’t leave the students alone and let them study in peace. In one instance a question has been asked that is it worth to skip classes for a paltry increase in tuition fees. I would like to put light on last year’s Ontario College Teachers strike. The students lost 2 months of valuable study time. The semester was never extended to provide extra classes, which compromised the quality of education to a great extent. The evaluation standard in some colleges was unfair. And on top of that, the students never received any refund for this downtime. All this happened due to the indifferent attitude of the provincial govt. and if due attention was paid at an appropriate time; the conflict would have been resolved in the first week itself.
Some students work more than one part time job to pay for their tuition fees and other expenses and merely break even at the end of the semester. In my view this protest can be rightly given the name of a strike as the students should do everything to convey their message that they do not want any tuition fee hikes, even though it’s a small amount.
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