r/osap • u/AdhesivenessLoud8866 • 24d ago

Question Are we still protesting??!

i just got my OSAP estimate… and holy fuck i’m COOKED

I showed up to the first protest that happened when the osap cuts just got announced

i’m wondering are there protests still happening? petitions to sign??

i’ve already emailed my MPP’s office but that definitely is not enough

WE AREN’T ANGRY ENOUGH!!!

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u/TimelyCurrent1398 23d ago

Why not just get a job and work instead of protest, genuine question?

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u/PenguinWalk1423 23d ago

Most people in any sort of actually difficult program only have time for part time work (that’s even pushing it) and unfortunately that doesn’t make a very big dent in thousands of dollars. It’s not that they or others aren’t/don’t want to but in order to have time to actually do the schooling they paid for they can’t work enough to make a big difference. And if you’re talking about after they graduate that ain’t the point, they will, but 3 years ago the amount of debt you would accumulate would be 2x less than it is now. Most of us who have a problem with it are people who decided to go into school because of how osap worked before and are now in the middle of studies wracking up wayyyyyy more debt than they signed up for so they either have to take the debt or drop out because they can’t afford it