The Editor,
With the teachers’ job action continuing and the schools held in abeyance, the students can do nothing but kill time in anticipation for the school year to commence after an entire week of no education.
Even though I believe the teachers are indeed advocating this interminable strike for the sake of students, one can’t help but wonder how they value the learners’ rights for education when it has been appropriated from them due to the walkout.
I consider education as both a right and an obligation for students. It’s not acceptable to take it away from them. Delaying the school year for such a cause seems to defeat the whole purpose of supporting the students.
However, as many parents have feared, it has become quite evident that this job action will not come to an end until the teachers obtain what they demand.
If the strike continues to be unresolved and the teachers stay out, it is the students who will suffer most, deprived of the education they should be acquiring.
S. Chang
Richmond
