“There are very, very few additional absences compared to a normal Friday. We expected more mobilization than this,” said Nicolas Prévost, president of the Quebec Federation of School Principals.

A few days ago, an appeal for a demonstration on May 9th was called off by the TikTok account TikTok school_qc, created by a young teenager by the name of Youri Roy. His video has reached more than 650,000 views.

Bernard Drainville, the Minister of Education of Quebec, asked students to keep going to class. He also asked for help from his parents. The minister also brought back the fact that we are in a period of exams and ministerial evaluations.

Many schools have warned the parents by Email that if their child participated in this demonstration, consequences would be imposed, and their absence would be considered unjustified.

Even though many students were angry about the law that doesn’t allow phones in school and on school grounds, not many people participated in the demonstration that was planned.

The risk of sanctions and the rainy weather discouraged many students from participating in the demonstration. In Quebec, few school service centers, such as The School Service Center Des Découvreurs, Des Navigateurs, and Des Premières Seigneuries, claimed that they did not notice any difference in their usual absence rate.

In Lanaudière, about fifty students went in front of the school to protest, but a majority of them went inside when the bell rang.

” We can use our cellphones outside of school,” said Leila in front of Roberval Academy.”But staying home to protest won’t have much of an impact.”

According to a lot of students, this law won’t stop cyberbullying. They strongly believe that this bullying takes place in the morning before school and at night after school.

Some journalists came to school and asked students to ask as if they were participating in the demonstration, so they could interview them.