200,000 Canadian Teachers Strike to Defend Public Education

1. Screw the useless teachers!!! Fire them all shut down all the schools subsidize private schools spend tax payers money on home schooling pay mum n dad to do it!!!

2. The government needa to go!!!
   The monetary system does this, the governmwnt is playing games with people! Their greedy people who only care about themselves!!!!!!

3. The only reason why they're doing this is because of the majority of the people in Ontario are People of color

4. I wish these teachers, etc., great SUCCESS with this struggle. The Ford-run govt of Ontario is evidently being FASCISTIC once again, AGAIN. Ford evidently must be voted out with the next election ; the sooner, the better. Guy is nuts. There's NOTHING wrong with public education, not per se anyway. Worked out well for me, except for bullying crap, but I also had that experience at the sort of private elementary school I was forced, by my parents, to attend from grades 1-7. It was a school run by a nuns' convent and I had nothing against the nuns, but had plenty of disgruntlement due to the bullying crap, and the fact that we didn't have much for meaningful ed.

   Got to finally be able to switch to a public school for 8th grade and this provided a real math course in algebra, a real, complete chemistry course, so including plenty of lab. experimentation/learning, a good course in English grammar, etc; finally, some meaningful, useful ed.

   The nuns were fine, but they weren't happy with me after returning to school, following a two week break I provided myself with in order to avoid the damn bullying crap. Couldn't tell them about that, for word of this would get to the main bully's family and it would've just made life all the more dangerous … for me. I couldn't take the risk to speak of this with the nuns. No way, José! My life would've been in greater danger, a risk I didn't wish to take. Safer to just let myself be beat up by guys my own age and relative size. They were mean, nuts, but never caused any bruises, scratches, …. Just caused psychological harm, mostly anyway; PTSD, though definitely not as severe as many soldiers develop.

   The public school for 8th grade had one main bully and he tried his crap with me, but I just told him something like, " No, we're NOT going to fight ". I wanted good school courses and finally got some. It was the goal and I got it. Still skipped some schooling there, for it had, over plenty of years, become traditional, habitual for me to skip, and I didn't need to skip this time around due to bullying, for I just turned that conduct away, successfully AND peacefully. Nope, the skipping was just tradition, habit, and while I had no need to do it, it seemed rather traditional, a tradition that had been previously developed and was useful when a break was needed.

   None of those teachers complained and I ACED that year.

   Anyway, high school was also public. What's wrong with public ed.? If anything, it should be socially beneficial! Was for me. Socially, it provides more experience and that means learning to live in society. It's more multi-cultural, multi-religious, …, students coming from families of various ways of life. Of course it was students of families with low economy as well, but that was fine with me, for I also was of similar "caste" of society. So, I appreciated that aspect as well as the better courses.

   Ford is a JERK and seemingly fascist.

5. School is overrated, accomplishes brainwashing of children and should be abolished. All these teachers should find a new profession

6. Ford needs to go where his brother went.

7. All thanks to the ex-drug dealer and brother of the late coke-head and mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, the good right wing citizens of Ontario voted in Drug Ford to dismantle as many public services as possible. Ontario should please the Trump administration, we now fit Trump's convenient profile as a shit hole country. Dougie, you're doing an incredibly great job, baleevmee!

8. I don't thibk Canadians are anywhere near getting rid of neoliberalism, considering they only vote for Liberals and Conservatives.

9. Most schools are indoctrination camps.

10. Education and healthcare cuts are necessary to ensure the continuation of oil and gas subsidies.

11. In April 2019 the ETFO did a Press release from Sam Hammond in which he stated "Ontario does not have a spending problem, it is a Revenue problem" , in that release, we have two this to consider, truth, and taxes. Truth is well before there was even a vote on job action, Sam Hammond of the ETFO laid the position that Ontario better raise taxes, as this was going to be ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, further Sam Hammond and the ETFO are not for the kids as raising taxes in Ontario, would impact the Elderly, Single parents, and low income families the most, all to enrich a group that makes sixty percent ABOVE the provincial average. ETFO lies, and don't care what impact they have on people, so long as they enrich themselves.

12. Teacher pay should be DOUBLED

13. Public education is trash these days. Its focus is political indoctrination rather than learning fundamentals of life.

14. Even canada ! CAPITALISM IS DEAD !

15. btw, TRUE UNIONISM is our Brothers and Sisters HELPING EACH OTHER to be sure that ALL HUMANS have the Right for a JOB that is BETTER than just a LIVING WAGE, but is a wage which creates Community everywhere.

16. Thanks for covering this important story. I must say though, please work on your French pronunciation

17. Here comes the end of the world one world government

18. How's that socialism panning out? I wonder what they will do when robots arrive?

19. Education would be better if it was privatized. Just like jails.

20. Cons don't care about cost cutting. Only diverting money from average people to the rich.

21. Keep fighting ✊

22. Stop teachers unions and homeschool you're children you're self it's not everyone else's job to pay you're child's education its you're responsibly

23. Solidarity.

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