{"id":250779,"date":"2025-10-30T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250779\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:09:08","slug":"alberta-students-walk-out-of-class-in-support-of-teachers-forced-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250779\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta students walk out of class in support of teachers forced back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted October 30, 2025 2:13 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated October 30, 2025 2:14 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of students rallied at the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alberta-legislature\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta legislature<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alberta-teachers-association\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Teachers\u2019 Association<\/a> building in Edmonton on Thursday, protesting the province\u2019s decision to order striking teachers back to work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Students streamed into the legislature plaza in front of the sandstone building, carrying signs and wearing red, a colour that has come to symbolize unity with educators.<\/p>\n<p>Social media platforms shared among students are urging walkouts in schools across the province.<\/p>\n<p>Students also rallied in other parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761854947_61_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>One of those students, Josh Plamondon, said the back-to-work order is terrible and believes educators should be given what they want.<\/p>\n<p>Plamondon, who is in Grade 12, said he is dyslexic and dysgraphic, and while teachers try to help him the best they can, it\u2019s difficult without legislated limits on class sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got classes of 40 students, which is not the way education should be done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our obligation as students and as members of the populace to fight so that people\u2019s rights aren\u2019t trampled over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11500054\/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-destruction-video-photos\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761854948_174_CP175230939.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHurricane Melissa: Jamaica wakes up to destruction as storm pummels Cuba\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11501831\/blue-jays-defeat-dodgers-game-5-world-series\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761854948_159_1e0adb898931a615fa08d26beea3e695c34b1e0042a8ce8fbfa79681a1ead263.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBlue Jays one win from World Series title after Yesavage pitches them past Dodgers 6-1 in Game 5\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s government severely curtailed debate rules to pass through the house in just hours a bill ordering 51,000 teachers back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s government used the Charter\u2019s notwithstanding clause to override teachers\u2019 right to strike and shield the bill from legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has said the strike was causing students irreparable harm, while the Alberta Teachers\u2019 Association believes the use of the notwithstanding clause is a gross violation of rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore 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