At Queen's Park on May 8 at 4:30 pm, students will congregate on the front lawn in an act of continued protest towards the government's education cuts. They will be protesting in accordance with students across Ontario, who will be sitting in at their local MPPs offices or city halls.

The youth advocacy group Students Say No organized this protest in opposition to the Ford Government's education changes. This protest comes at the heels of their wildly successful walkout - the largest high school student protest in Canada's history.
“The students of Ontario have had enough of this disrespect from our government,” says StudentsSayNo executive director Rayne Fisher-Quann. “When Ford says that he’s ‘for the people’, he needs to be for all the people - students included. We simply aren’t being heard right now, and we won’t rest until we feel like our futures matter to our elected officials.”

StudentsSayNo garnered its fair share of controversy during their last protest, primarily stemming from the Premier’s claims that the thousands of student leaders were simply “union pawns”. The StudentsSayNo team is looking forward to using this sit-in as another example of 100% grassroots student organizing, and proving once again that young people don’t need any help in making their voices heard.

On May 8 at 4:30 pm, thousands of students across Ontario will stand up, sit in, and once again make their voices heard. It’s the sincere hope of the StudentsSayNo team that our politicians will be listening.

source: media release, StudentsSayNo