Dutch school strikes

[kokusho]

if you're Dutch, you've probably heared of it, if you aren't, here it comes.

our "ministry of school and all kind of stuff like that"(don't know the name in english) has made a law that instead of 960 hours a year we have to go to school 1040 hours a year. Because of this, all people in highschool are kind of pissed and there are mass-strikes, that sometimes even revolve into riots. those strikes start via msn, when someone starts talking about it to someone it immediately goes around the schools.

what do you, oh fellow BBS-users, think of the law and the strikes?

and no, just state your opinion on what I said because I don't have any material to refer to.

[neon-dude]

There's already a similar topic in general: Schools 'on strike' in Holland

My view: rock on! Fight the power!

[kokusho]

srry 'bout that, searched for "school strike" but didn't find anything

gogo moderator of lockingtopics

[lapis]

At 11/27/07 01:03 PM, kokusho wrote: if you're Dutch, you've probably heared of it, if you aren't, here it comes.

"Ministry of Education".

Because of this, all people in highschool are kind of pissed and there are mass-strikes, that sometimes even revolve into riots.

I know, my tram had to be rerouted yesterday because a group of pissed off high schoolers was rioting on the Museumplein.

what do you, oh fellow BBS-users, think of the law and the strikes?

I have some doubts regarding the effectiveness of the law, I fear that schools that don't manage to meet those benchmarks due to a lack of employees will try to fill the gap with compulsory, poorly supervised "lessons" during which the students are expected to do schoolwork on their own. If you want to coerce underperforming schools into providing better quality for their students without having to resort to cutting subsidies or letting the free market drive them into bankruptcy then this purely bureaucratic measure probably isn't the best solution. I think that this is also what DWARS and the LAKS are trying to get across.

But most of these strikes were absurd. I couldn't escape getting the impression that most of these high schoolers didn't know what the Hell they were striking about, when a group of them in Limburg marched over to the county hall one of the officials walked out to talk to them, only to find out that most of them had no idea as to what their complaints or demands were, excluding the fact that they didn't like going to school.

At 11/27/07 01:14 PM, kokusho wrote: gogo moderator of lockingtopics

Well, this is a subject related to politics. Maybe it has more of a right to belong here than in General.

[Lindione]

It would be ok with me as long as that time was used wisely and the students got that much less homework

[Empanado]

At 11/27/07 01:03 PM, kokusho wrote: school strikes

Not trying to be a pompous ass, but been there, done that.

what do you, oh fellow BBS-users, think of the law and the strikes?

What a bunch of cuntbags. If you're going to throw a nationwide student protes, you at least do it for a decent enough reason. Not just "waah, I'm having 20 more minutes of school each day, now I can't watch Pokémon, waah".
Now kids are going to lose several days of school and some of them will get the shit beaten oit of them by the police thanks to a bunch of self-proclaimed rebels with deep ideologies such as "omg skool sukz0rz"

[alicetheDroog]

Strikes and protests of the underaged rarely turn out well.

[LiveBreatheTom]

its good to protest something you don't agree with, but in the long run it seems like it's just going to hurt students more by rioting and missing more school. Is there a plan for what will be done with the extra time? or is it just to help better prepare and teach needed lessons?

I know in my county we pull more school days than anywhere else in the state because we have about 8 or 9 snow days planned in so we won't be behind should a blizzard lock us in our homes.

[Del-Toro]

YEAH!! death to the nazi oppressors!