Bernard Drainville asks the unhappy students of the cellular ban at school for the next school year to return to reason and not to boycott their courses as a protest. The Minister of Education calls for parents’ help.
“I understand that we are going to change their habits, I understand that there is a reaction, now, that’s not a reason to miss school,” he said on Thursday, in a message for young Quebecers.
Several students in Quebec are preparing to strike against the new measure which will prohibit them from using their smartphone in the walls of schools from the start of the September school year. Many videos have appeared on the Tiktok platform to invite schoolchildren and secondary adolescents to demonstrate their dissatisfaction on Friday while staying at home.
Minister Drainville recalled that we are entering into the period of exams and assessments of the ministry, a crucial moment for academic success.
-“I understand that they want to demonstrate their opposition, their reluctance, that’s correct. But from there to boycott the school, that’s not a good idea, “he added, in a press scrum in the National Assembly.
Bernard Drainville requests the help of the parents, who must discourage their children from making the bush school. “I need parents. Parents have to have a discussion with their children this evening to say to them: “Listen to it, I understand that you are not happy, but you must not miss the school for that, because it is your academic success that must take precedence”.
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