A student strike occurs when students from a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class. This form of strike action is often used as a negotiation tactic to put pressure on the governing body, particularly in area where education is free, and the government cannot afford to have a student cohort miss an entire year, causing an overload of students and lack at the next level. Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to direct ones zeal at; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject. ... A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ... A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, 1934. ... For other meanings see cohort In statistics and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects — most often humans from a given population — defined by a condition on their date of birth. ...
For purposes of determining whether a person is Dependent for tax purposes, the term student means an individual who during each of five calendar months during a tax year is a full-time student at a qualified educational institution or is pursuing a full-time course of institutional on-farm training.
The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb "stŭdērĕ", meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject.
A student is also known as a disciple in the sense of a religious area of study or in the sense of a "discipline" of learning.
Student organizing was one of the American Left's most successful areas of political activity during the Great Depression.
This campaign helped spread the organizational presence of student radicalism across the country, and—according to college straw polls—won Thomas the endorsement of eighteen percent of the student body, a far higher level of support than he was able to obtain from the general electorate.
The studentstrike mushroomed into an annual mass protest, as the NSL and SLID extended their Popular Front style of anti-war organizing beyond the Left to religious and liberal groups.
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