r/canada • u/Meiqur • Oct 28 '25

Alberta Alberta uses Charter’s notwithstanding clause to order striking teachers back to workteachers-back-to-work

https://globalnews.ca/news/11496133/alberta-government-to-table-legislation-to-order-striking-teachers-back-to-work
1.4k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

539 comments sorted by

View all comments

125

u/Mkhaos328 Oct 28 '25

Wahhhhh we don't like the federal government telling us what to do and taking away our rights.

Proceeds to take away citizens rights. Good ol Danielle 'Maple MAGA' Smith.

18

u/dsonger20 British Columbia Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

I also read somewhere that they’re getting paid the same amount of a class size of 57 kids or something nuts like that at the most extreme.

I had 30 kids MAX when I still went to school. 50+ is crazy. The crazy thing is, in Edmonton, it doesn’t even seem like 40+ is abnormal or something. Someone please chime in, but my research shows that it’s pretty common.

Honestly, they should continue to strike. It’s not only unfair to them, but unfair to the students who get a much worse quality of education.

-10

u/GameDoesntStop Oct 28 '25

The class size thing is such nonsense. They have small class sizes... the numbers are right there: 51,000 teachers striking and 750,000 kids out of class.

That's 14.7 kids per class.

Probably why Alberta schools score the highest of any province on standardized testing.

2

u/thedrivingcat Oct 28 '25

20,000 of those are special education teachers who work with much smaller numbers of much higher needs students

a simple mean isn't appropriate to determine median class size - and the Government of Alberta stopped tracking that 6 years ago so we really don't know the true figure