Outraged by the attitude of the students at school

High school students who take the pandemic seriously are enraged by the behavior of some of their peers and ask them to make an effort to play by the rules.

“Honestly, I don’t know what to tell them. If you are not able to [respecter les règles de la Santé publique], you won’t get far in life ”, believes Léonie Rocheleau, in 3^e secondary school at Monseigneur-Euclide-Théberge school in Marieville, Montérégie.

She and her 12-year-old brother Alexis do their best to play by the rules inside and outside of school, despite the difficulties.

Their fear is not of catching the coronavirus, but of transmitting it to people at risk, they say.

“So that some people don’t die, that would be good [de respecter la distance] », Reminds young people of his age Alexis Rocheleau, stressing that this is far from being the case after leaving Marcellin-Champagnat high school.

Serious?

“It looks like they are stupid and they want us to have more cases,”, for his part, Mason Rowe, 16, who attends LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School in Montreal, is in despair.

Here, as in other establishments, it is not uncommon to see the rules concerning the wearing of masks and social distancing relaxed around noon.

“There are some who are irresponsible. I’ve seen them give each other hugs and share the same bottle of water, ”says Amaya, in first year secondary in the same school.

Faced with the attitude of these recalcitrant, conscious students sometimes find themselves uncomfortable or at a loss for words.

“Sometimes I want to yell at them,” admits Sarah, who also studies at this school where at least one case has been listed.

Insecurity

Worried about the active cases affecting 581 schools in Quebec, high school students mobilized to demand to study at a distance, even without a doctor’s note.

At the invitation of Mason Rowe, about fifty students from LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School left their class at 11 a.m. sharp Thursday to express their disagreement.

” [À notre école], most of the classrooms don’t have windows and the ventilation system is really bad, ”he strongly denounced.