Strike is a betrayal of Ontario students

RE: Ontario college strike

This college strike is a wrong-headed betrayal of our young people on so many levels.

On one hand, we worry about our youth and their lack of initiative to have a plan and a dream. So many are on the street without a future. But then, we discard and dismiss those who possess a dream just six weeks into the term, using them as pawns.

The time for potential employees to assess their terms of employment is before they accept the job, not six weeks into the job. You signed on; complete your commitment! Then reassess for the following term. Consider a surgeon assessing his satisfaction with his workplace and walking out 20 minutes into a complex surgery!

The word “precarious” is being used to describe the job security of the instructors. “It’s not about money,” they say. But for the students, it surely IS about money! Consider the “precarious” state of students with limited OSAP funding, summer jobs that have barely financed their college experience, wasted rent and parking and bus passes and a probable need to extend all of this when finances are already minimal.

Consider the stress on all the students. The international students get the headlines but what about our Ontario students who will drop out due to shortage of funds and waste their investment? Chris King, Simcoe