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A group of Kelowna Secondary students are in school Monday, sitting-in to protest the teacher strike.
This is the second week of cancelled classes and some students fear their post-secondary futures may be in jeopardy if it continues much longer.
Grade 12 student Isabella Thomson created a Facebook group called KSS Student Sit-In and Rally. Pictures posted to the page show a few dozen students in the multipurpose room, playing games and eating Tim Bits.
"What we are trying to get across with this demonstration is that students are tired of being stuck in the middle of this whole teachers strike, and we really want to be back in school," she said in an email.
The description on the page says the sit-in runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will conclude with a rally starting at 3 p.m. to give voice to students affected by the strike.
"We will be going to school like any normal school day, and will be occupying the MPR (multipurpose room) in protest to the limbo position we have been put in with this teachers strike," reads the page. "You are welcome to bring signs, or materials to make signs during the day, but we advise that you please keep them party neutral.
Meaning that the point of this sit-in and rally is not to express support for either the teachers or the government, but to put pressure on both sides to put an end or a suspension to this strike."
Kristy Baillie is in grade 11 and said she is one of four kids in her family currently not in classes. "It hugely affects my family," she said. "I'm just laying at home not learning anything and not doing anything. I really just want to go back to school."
Tom Song is in grade 12 and said when it comes time for university applications, he is worried about competing with students from other provinces who aren't missing any classes.
"The grade 12s will have to struggle to catch up, or do more work and may not have as good of a grade as they could have, if school had actually started on time," he said. "Universities can't go lenient on us just because we didn't have school in the beginning. It will be much harder for people like us to actually get into universities."
