As one school after another closes due to the April 8 solar eclipse, special glasses have been distributed at several school service centers in Quebec, but they are not available to students at the Laval Service Center.
At Sophie Durocher's microphone at QUB, the director general of the Association for the Teaching of Science and Technology in Quebec revealed that the CSS had told teachers not to distribute glasses to children.
General Director Camille Turcotte explains this extraordinary situation to Sophie Durocher at the QUB:
“There are schools that struggle to get glasses,” explained Camille Turcotte.
In their opinion, this directive is counterproductive and prevents young people from fully enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime event. Ms Turcotte also believes this promotes ignorance at the expense of science.
“We walk upside down, it’s a clown show,” complained Sophie Durocher
The glasses, which cost about $0.50 each, were provided to the CSS free of charge by the organization Discovering the Universe, a project that took two years to complete. Camille Turcotte hopes to collect the 35,000 glasses to distribute to libraries.