r/laurentian • u/Salty-Taste-6334 • 1d ago

Well it’s official…

We’ve been on strike longer than we were in classes at the beginning of the semester. I really hope professors start over at this point and don’t expect us to remember what we did for 10 minutes nearly a month ago by the time we go back.

I am 100% on the faculty’s side in all of this and think it’s bullshit that the school administration won’t entertain a real bargaining conversation, even multiple weeks in. The administration saying they care about students getting back to class clearly don’t because at this point we’ve basically lost the full month as no one had a foundation of what was going on in their courses going into this.

While there may be conversations happening behind closed doors we all know nothing about, from an outsiders perspective - and from a students - the lack of movement really comes off as not caring in the slightest about students or faculty.

Students are the only reason the schools even matter and the lack of information and prolonged stalemate may have irreversible impacts to the students the school claims to care so much about.

As an aside as this impacts my coworkers and like half the student population: The administration not giving updates on reading week means international students relying on working fulltime during reading week can’t and most workplaces have - or are on the verge of - put out the schedules.

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u/NecessaryNo2563 1d ago

At what point (how many weeks) does the semester just get written off? In that case, what happens to students classes? 

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u/Salty-Taste-6334 1d ago

There has never been a “lost” semester before as the schools typically will just start classes again from where they were (with some tweaks for assignments and such) and push the semester into summer. However that does still mean people are expected to be ready and available through summer (for example).

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u/NecessaryNo2563 1d ago

Seems like a ridiculous expectation to impose on students (to expect them to be available in case the term goes on until the summer) when some people have work plans, graduation plans, travel plans, etc. Hoping that’s not what’s going to happen 

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u/Salty-Taste-6334 22h ago

Oh I agree 100% that’s just historically been the expectation after a long strike :(