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Parents were once again left scrambling, trying to figure out what to do with their school-aged children on Friday.

Some had to find child care, some took their kids to work, others were forced to take a day off — all because Ontario’s teachers’ unions decided to all walk out at the same time leaving more than two million students with no school to go to.

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And that left more than 125,000 teachers free to strike, to picket, to descend upon the seat of the provincial government in downtown Toronto.

There is no doubt the crowd was massive — the unions claim they were 30,000 strong but in reality, that is hard to verify.

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They came by bus, by car and by subway. Thousands of teachers picketing outside the legislature at Queen’s Park demanding that the Ford government reverse course on absolutely everything and give the teachers what they want.

“It’s time the government listened to frontline educators,” said Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.