For every student who has ever felt unimportant, we take action.

In our education system, students hold very little power. Far too often, our needs are ignored, our voices silenced, and our rights tread upon. So long have these conditions existed that we have all but given up on appropriate and equitable treatment, and even worse is the pervasive idea that any effort at challenging the status quo is futile, impossible, or wrong.

To be clear: We can do better. We must do better. And that change will not begin with our educators.

So we, the high school students of Canada have no choice but to look to one another for defence, for a means to hold our educators accountable and speak for those without a voice. We have formed the Canadian Secondary Students' Union, a representative body of student leaders tasked with safeguarding our schools and ensuring that each one functions in a just and equitable fasion.