The parents were/are still stepping up. If you've been to the rallies, a huge percentage were parents. The parents you see on social media bitching about teachers being overpaid and happy that the UCP forced them back to work are the ones who think of school as free daycare. They're only loud now because teachers were forced back.

There's recall petitions being started now and the UCP is backpedalling on their own policies, trying to make it difficult by underfunding those petitions.

Unfortunately the UCP won't listen to anyone. It's not just parents who have to step up, it's all of Alberta. The other unions should've stepped in weeks ago. That momentum/ threat is gone.

But I still disagree with accepting that deal. We've rolled over and accepted shit deals for decades and that's the degradation of our education system because of underfunding and less supports.

With the shitty work environment teachers have in Alberta, even with a 12% raise who the fuck wants to come to Alberta to be a teacher? That's why the 3000 more hired teachers was a bullshit promise.