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Classrooms of public and separate secondary schools alike were quiet across the Bay of Quinte on Tuesday, as Catholic and Hastings and Prince Edward District high school teachers spent the day on the picket lines.

It was the sixth strike organized by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, or OSSTF, since negotiations stalled with Premier Doug Ford’s government back in December.

“We’re out here to support public education,” said Keith Sled, the vice-president of OSSTF District 29, who was present during the picketing at Centennial High School in Belleville.

Teachers and supporters could be seen marching around the perimeter of schools wielding re-printed signs that read ‘No Cuts to Education’, or congregating between walkabouts at the main entrances with hot beverages, space-heaters and sometimes music.

“We’re out here to protect public education so the students that come to Centennial or any of our high schools in Ontario today get the same education or better education than people in the past. Not a hollow vision of what it was,” Sled said.

The day-long strike by OSSTF teachers on Tuesday represented one part of a rash of rotating strikes by unions across various school boards that began on Monday with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, or ETFO.

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