It's that time of year, for everywhere but B.C.

It's the time of year when kids just about everywhere are headed back to school. Supplies are bought and carefully labeled, backpacks lovingly packed as full as they can get. Lunches have been made, cute little notes tucked inside. Parents are pulling out their cameras and phones to document little Suzie's first day of Kindergarten and Bobby's first day of middle school. Some parents are rejoicing and basking in the now kid-free days, some are tearfully looking at empty rooms and wondering what to do now. And then there are the parents in British Columbia Canada. These parents are frantically looking for babysitters, for all day daycares, for friends and neighbors to help them out. Or for those of us who dont need daycare, who are instead on a hunt for curriculum books, reading and project materials so that we have some form of education to fill our children's coming days. I have not really picked a side in the current teacher's strike, because honestly I can see both sides. However in the end, its the kids who are losing. My newsfeed is full of first day of school pictures from parents around the country, people are discussing normal first week of school issues, busing, homework, friends, etc. While kids in the public B.C. school system are pushed further behind. At some point there may end up being a winner to this great fight, but whichever way things go, its the kids who'll forever be on the bottom.