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October 20, 2025

Premier Smith must respond to the teachers' strike by expanding school choice

Don’t let unions hold students hostage — It’s time to break the education cartel.


The union couldn’t care less about the needs of the children and it shows. They pretend to care about class sizes yet forget to acknowledge that alternative education options currently take almost 75,000 students out of public-school classrooms when homeschooling is taken into consideration. If the options were taken away as the union would prefer, how would we accommodate the sudden influx of students?
Educational trends have increasingly put more children with special needs into regular classrooms as well, which makes for a more challenging learning environment for everybody. Charter and separate schools provide specialized environments where students can receive instruction tailored to their needs. The union proposal is to keep the children crammed into standardized classrooms rather than allow them to attend schools with
instructional environments adjusted for them. https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/morgan-premier-smith-must-respond-to-the-teachers-strike-by-expanding-school-choice/68265

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