History of strikes by high school students in Quebec: Democracy and conflict
Students have been on strike for over a century in Quebec and around the world. A search in the archives of the Quebec press and 62 semi-structured interviews helped to paint a picture − albeit incomplete − of student strikes in Quebec, to identify their causes, forms and, political significance from the students' point of view. The experience of the strike allows them to evaluate the political interest of autonomous collective actions and to question the official discourse that reduces “democracy” to elections and the student council, as repeated in unison by the Ministry of Education, the National Assembly, Élections Québec, and several academics experts of citizenship education.