The New Era demands new skills and lifelong learning from students of all ages.
Education is the cornerstone of our society - and it has never been more critical than it is today.
It's time we formally recognized that fact and restored education as an essential service, to ensure that students are never again denied access to the education that your tax dollars pay for, simply because of a labour dispute. Every day that a child is shut out of a classroom is a learning day that is lost to that child forever. When you add up all the students in BC who have been turned away from their schools because of strikes and lockouts, more than four million student days have been lost since 1991. But that's not the half of it. At a time when parents are forced to raise money for bare essentials, like textbooks, millions of dollars have been wasted on fast ferries, Skytrain overruns and other failed NDP megaprojects.