{"id":19149,"date":"2013-02-25T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19149"},"modified":"2013-02-25T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:04:43","slug":"worst-student-movement-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/worst-student-movement-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst. Student movement. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/higheredstrategy.com\/is-this-the-worst-student-movement-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">FEUQ<\/a> speeds into the global lead for worst student movement ever:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m trying to imagine a worse excuse for a student movement than the one Quebec has at the moment; and I have to say that I\u2019m not sure I can.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure, the Canadian Federation of Students has talked some awful crap about how <a href=\"http:\/\/higheredstrategy.com\/by-their-actions-shall-ye-know-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">reducing net tuition for poor students is unacceptable, unless richer kids get a break too<\/a> &mdash; really ludicrous stuff, which objectively favours richer students over poorer ones. But so far as I know, they\u2019ve never actively aided and abetted a government that was intent on making universities poorer.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s what FEUQ, and the rest of the Quebec student movement, seem to be doing right now.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>FEUQ\u2019s train of thought seems to run something like this: 1) Universities want more money; 2) the provincial government is broke; 3) therefore, new money can only come out of tuition fees; 4) therefore, we\u2019d better oppose this. The problem is, if you concede point 2 you\u2019re more or less screwed in terms of asking something for yourself, like a more generous student aid system (which Quebec certainly needs, at least for dependent students). <strong><em>And<\/em><\/strong> you\u2019ve gone and hacked-off one of your most natural allies as far as higher education is concerned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HESA_News\/statuses\/306010840937660416\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Gordon<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FEUQ speeds into the global lead for worst student movement ever: I\u2019m trying to imagine a worse excuse for a student movement than the one Quebec has at the moment; and I have to say that I\u2019m not sure I can. I mean, sure, the Canadian Federation of Students has talked some awful crap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,79,84],"tags":[91,113,793,764],"class_list":["post-19149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-education","category-government","tag-poverty","tag-quebec","tag-subsidies","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4YR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19151,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149\/revisions\/19151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}