With College faculty threatening to set up picket lines on campus Friday, many students are wondering what this will mean for the remainder of their classes this term.
Emily Salvatore, a second-year early childhood education program, says she’s feeling a lot of pressure over the potential strike.
“I feel really stressed out about it because I’m concerned about what is going to happen with my semester and the fact that I am supposed to be graduating soon.”
“As a student, I feel like it’s going to be really difficult to me to complete the work, if I need assistance, especially with my accommodations, I am entitled to have extensions I am concerned about how I am going to be able to get the help that I need,” said Salvatore
Declan Phillips, a second-year radio broadcasting student said it messes up his whole schedule because he’s unsure about what deadlines he will have to meet.
“I feel with most of the programs I am currently taking you can kind of facilitated through online, it wouldn’t be hard to do it online but if they are stopping communication completely then that’s going to completely ruin how I am going to hand in assignments,” said Phillips.
Ariana Giordano, a baking and pastries arts management student says it’s going to be difficult without being able to speak with professors.
“Especially for those who are just finishing a semester or something because they’re being cut short and they’re not able to finish it just so they can be pushed back, which means that they have to release their plans and figure out their stuff,” said Giordano
“It kind of nerve-racking because we might have to wait because we don’t have the teachers there obviously, so I am going to have to wait to learn pretty much.”
She added she’ll miss being able to use the campus cooking facilities.
“It makes me very upset because part of going to school is using all the equipment that I don’t have at home.”
Mike Waschuk, who is in the firefighter program said it is unfortunate because students need to get back to their academics, especially after students had to stay home due to the pandemic.
“It’s very difficult because if I would want to reach out to a captain or instructor it would be harder to do so because I don’t have those resources there so if I have academic or school-related troubles it will be harder for a person, but you just have to roll with it,” said Waschuk
“As a per-service Firefighter students we do have access to EMR training as well as paramedic stuffs that’s medical equipment that we are locked out of which is very big for us because we can’t practice our medical skills as much as we want and even our firefighting skills because of our practical PPE and PPC that we wear we won’t have peer access to it, so we may become unfamiliar with the equipment,” said Waschuk.