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By Nathaniel Leigh

Oct. 29, 2025

Local students plan walkouts and rallies Wednesday

Oct 28, 2025 | 4:19 PM

Students at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and Chinook High School are planning walkouts Oct. 29, in response to Bill 2 and in support of their teachers.

Grade 11 LCI student Abigael Fortier is organizing the LCI event, saying all her classes have over 30 students, while others have over 50.

“I’m tired of these conditions,” Fortier said in a Reddit post. “If the government won’t listen to teachers, let’s make them listen to us.”

Participating students are asked to wear red during the walkout and bring signs and rallying spirits.

Students unable to walk out but who wish to support their teachers are encouraged to wear red as well.

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Elementary and middle school students are invited to attend the walkout at LCI with their parents or guardians in attendance or rally outside their own school if accompanied by trusted adults.

The walkout will begin at 10:00 a.m. Fortier is asking students to leave quietly and return to class if directly asked by their teachers as the walkout is for their benefit as well as the students.

You can view the full post here: (https://www.reddit.com/r/Lethbridge/comments/1odt5jh/student_walk_out_incase_teachers_are_ordered_back/)

Another rally at Chinook High school will also be held Oct. 29, at 9:25 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.

Grade 12 student Georgia Worthington says Chinook students have organized a student walk out in front of Chinook High School.

She says their goal is to support teachers and rally for option diplomas due to the impacts of the teacher strike.

Worthington says Chinook students are striving to make a difference and want to spread the word so their message can make the largest impact possible.

In addition, Noble Central school students are also participating in a walkout of solidarity with Alberta teachers.

Meantime, it’s a busy day for Alberta schools on Wednesday as more than 740,000 students have returned to class following the end of a provincewide teachers strike.

Classes are resuming after Premier Danielle Smith’s government invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to order 51,000 teachers back to work.

Students have been out for more than three weeks, and Smith has said the strike has caused irreparable harm and that the government had no other choice.

School boards have advised parents they expect classes to be up and running, but there may be delays and changes to everything from diploma exams to extracurricular activities.

(With files from The Canadian Press)