VANCOUVER – As the province of BC’s public school teachers continue their strike this week, approximately 500,000 students are left unable to skip school.
“Where am I supposed to drop my child off so she can ignore her schoolwork, take frequent bathroom breaks to meet her friends in the stairwell corridor to trade cigarettes, and spend lunchtimes and most of the afternoon periods in the forest behind the schoolyard exchanging lurid sexual details about their teachers?” one desperate mother told reporters. “I don’t know what to do with a young girl all by myself.”
Experts say young students are the biggest victims during school strikes, because it serves as a stark reminder that their entire existence is devoid of any purpose or meaning.
“Video games just lost all their fun,” one eighth grader Sammy Bondwin said. “What is there to do in life?”
