My survey questions will center around the idea of children, mainly school children and under, participating in strikes and other politically charged events either through forced involvement, brainwashed ideals, or ignorance to the topics in general. The questions that will be sparked to my other classmates will go from general ideas like whether striking itself is bad all around, if they have their own preference on the concept, to more interesting topics like whether young people get these ideas forced into them or not. It will discuss the more positive results of strikes when it comes to people in the workforce that are mistreated, but it will also bring up the more negative almost rebellious side of the strike movements, like the recent school children climate change topic.

The idea of striking is to attract attention by reason of being unusual, extreme, or prominent and the concept of striking has to come from a person’s need or want to fix a issue that is deemed to not be respectful or fair to a large group. I think that students, particularly university students, have the best mindset for thinking about the appropriate nature of when and why to strike because they have both the fresh open mind nature of a young individual, but also has the starting point for a more mature mindset that can shape ideals and look into them logically, so there input would be the most valuable. Striking can be useful in publicly exclaim outrage against working or personal injustices that usually work out in the benefit of the striker. An example is the General Motors Strike in 2007 USA when 73 000 workers of General Motors left the working premises for the first time since the 70s after the company refused to accept their demands on worker’s jobs and benefits. With an already bad history surrounding the original strike in the 70s, General Motors was a company looked down upon by many because of their lack of co-operation with their workers or with any other car dealership firm. This example has both positive and negative repercussions for this strike. The plus is that the unfair practice of this company were finally all for the world to see with multiple examples that were not improved on and the workers were forced to be treated fairly, but the business that whether a genuine company or not, lost a lot of stock, funding and reception from this strike that it never recovered from, losing all their income that the workers fought for, but most likely their jobs n the future. Even though it is from a different country, I think uni students could try to find both the pros and cons of this strike and could judge themselves whether it was a success or a failure.

Seeing as how strikes can work for anyone that is connected to a workforce, minority or anything resembling a group that isn’t treated fairly, the idea of striking is a universal idea that can be attributed to almost anyone of any gender, race, etc. Its also a timeless idea because injustices will most likely always occur in some form, so people will try and fight for what they believe in. The students, being the adults of the future, will have a voice in what they believe is right or wrong because they have witnessed similar situations like this so they can judge appropriately, but younger children will most likely have no set thoughts for themselves and it could rely to heavy on outsider influence. Case in point, the recent Climate Change School Children strike, where kids, toddlers to uni students all over Australia, left their schools and protested to the government to notice climate change. The topic itself will likely split people, but the movement wouldn’t have been so controversial if wasn’t done during school times. Taking time off school will make it much more noticeable and force the government to listen, but it will also show not only the more forceful rebellious avenue they are taking as well as disobeying school laws and losing their trust, but it only shows more considering a few children at the rally didn’t even have any knowledge of what a protest was and it was clearly a planted idea in their heads by higher-ups own ideologies even without realizing it. Because this one is more recent, the topic would be fresh on people’s minds and there would be a lot of opinions to share.

I would like to do my topic on striking on a grander scale to see how the university students view a topic that is still current and view how they and why they do or don’t like the idea with positive and negatives elements.