Student Strike

As most of you guys have heard, those in Canada at least. there is a student strike going on in Quebec because the government wants to raise the price of tuition in our province. It's going to go up about $1500 in the next 5 years, and we normally pay about 3000 in tuition. We have the lowest tuition rates in Canada, and it is a lot cheaper than the tuition rates in the States, so a lot of people come to Quebec to study. this raise of $1500 is not that much of a change, we'll still have the lowest tuition rates in Canada. I understand that some of the students will have trouble paying off their tuition when the raise comes, but to be honest, is it really worth messing up your academic school year, ruining your city, getting arrested, and ruining all the events and festivities that out province has to offer?In my opinion no, it isn't. There are better ways to get your point across than to yell at a police officer, block streets, random vandalism and banging your pots and pans in the middle of the night. What you're doing is pissing everyone off, even some of the people who supported your cause at the beginning.

Seriously, the raise comes to about 50 cents a day, most of us do have that 50 cents a day to spare, and those who think they don't think about all the useless things you buy everyday. How much money goes wasted without you being aware of it? I read a comment on CTV news noticed that a lot of the protesters had tattoos and the weren't small ones, if they have $400-1000 to spend on a tattoo, why not use that money on your education instead? And I agree with that idea, not that there is anything wrong with tattoos, but if you have that much money to spend on a tattoo, you should have enough money to pay off your tuition.

What I find ridiculous is that the government offered financial help for the students, like offering more bursaries and scholarships, making loans more accessible, but what do the strikers do? They rejected the proposal. The government offered a solution to your problems, and you reject it. That was a pretty stupid move on the part of the strikers in my opinion,cause if you really needed help, you would have taken it in any form it came in.

I understand the predicament that the students are in, but honestly I don't find what they are doing acceptable, so far, they have stopped Metro lines from working, preventing thousands of people from getting to work, school, ad doctor appointments on time. They have paraded down the streets vandalizing stores, cars and buildings alike. They have been banging pots and pans at 9 at night every night. they have blocked off passage to streets all over downtown. And they are preventing a lot of students who want to go to school from going to school by blocking access to the doors of the school. Seriously enough is enough, this has been going on for more than 3 months, it's about time these students and non students who just like the fact that they can riot to get off the streets and back to school or work or whatever is was that they were doing before.