Expelled From University For Being Too Young

In September last year, as university student Wendy Foster was organizing her schedule for the fall term, she had what she'd call "a sort of an epiphany."

Wendy: I realized how useful and interesting it would be for my kids to join the activism class I was about to take, so I decided to run the idea by them.

Sebastien: My Mom told us a few times about the course and my brother and I were quite curious to know more about it. She brought us to one of her classes and we liked it a lot. We made the decision to attend as a family.

I wanted to learn a lot more about things I might not be able to get a chance to learn before I go to University. I also wanted to learn to express my opinions a lot more, meet a lot of new different people and get some credits too.

Wendy: The reason I encouraged my kids to take this class is that I thought it was healthy. I realized it was a very positive environment for them to develop a social consciousness and awareness of the many different situations that are currently affecting our world.

Douglas: The course is very inclusive. The teacher, Dr. Denis Rancourt, told us that everybody in the society, beginning by his students, have an equal status. And we were his students.

Sebastien: We never felt discriminated by our classmates. They didn't seem to care about our age or our lack of formal education. It was actually fun to have classmates of different ages and backgrounds.

Wendy: I took the class for personal reasons. It was not part of my program nor was it a pre-requisite. I heard about it through other students who have taken it before.