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An Open Letter to the Teachers of Alberta
October 30, 2025
Dear Alberta Teachers,
I am writing to you today not as an enemy, but as a parent, and above all as someone who stands unapologetically with the students you held hostage during your recent strike.
For nearly a month, from October 6 to October 29, over 740,000 children across our province were denied their education. Classrooms sat empty, lessons were lost forever, and families scrambled to fill the void you created. This wasn't an act of selfless sacrifice; it was a calculated power play, perfectly timed during the school year when the pain would hit hardest, not during your summer break, when students wouldn’t be hurt.
The Alberta government was absolutely right to force you back to work. Premier Danielle Smith's decisive action through Bill 2, the Back to School Act, passed swiftly and invoking the notwithstanding clause, was a victory for common sense and our kids.
Students returned to class on October 29, just in time to salvage what remained of their fall term. You received a fair 12% wage increase over four years, plus commitments to hire 3,000 more teachers and 1,500 educational assistants. That's not oppression, that's responsibility.
But let's be brutally honest: You haven't been educators for a long time. Too many of you have morphed into woke propagandists, more interested in grooming impressionable young minds with indoctrination than teaching reading, writing, math, or critical thinking. Your strikes aren't about "classroom complexity", they're about leverage, ideology, and refusing deals that 90% of you rejected out of spite.
Teachers keep demanding more while delivering less. I do not stand with you. I stand with the students, the real victims here. The children whose futures you gambled away for your paycheques and politics. The government put them first, and for that, every parent in Alberta should be grateful.
Now, do your jobs. Teach our kids facts, skills, and resilience, not division, pronouns, and woke worship. Earn the respect you've lost.
Signed,
A Parent Standing with Students
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This morning I sent a letter of support to Premier Smith for sending the teachers back to work. I also let her know that this whole scenario was a combined ATA and NDP power grab using Alberta kids as pawns.
UCP made a Very Fair offer to the teachers.
I don't think governments or public unions should have more power over the other. They both have their responsibilities. It's hard to maintain that balance, and I suppose it's the publics job by where they put their support to help maintain that balance. I hope Albertans can see when group is abusing their power. It seems unions have too much political power and they know it and have been abusing it. From my understanding, when the Saskatchewan government stood up to the teachers union, they backed down because the union was too good at making the government look bad and created public outrage. From this video it seems that every BC party caves to all unions demands for the same reason.
The Unions here in AB are banking on this working here too. I think DS would have had no choice, they purposely shoved her into this corner, giving her no choice but to force them back to work. They planned for it. They are not even denying their goal of taking DS and the UCP down. I think she handled it ...