Ontario students are demanding a tuition refund for each day missed during the faculty strike.
An online petition with 110,484 signatures and counting asks that students be reimbursed a portion of their tuition for each day lost due to the walkout.
"At an average tuition of $5,000 for two 13-week semesters, we are paying nearly $40 a day to be in school,' the petition states.
Students demand that full-time students be reimbursed $30 a day and part-time students $20 a day.
235,000 full-time and over 300,000 part-time students are out of the classroom since faculty began a legal strike on Oct. 16.
Those numbers include 11,000 full-time domestic students and 1,500 international students at Georgian College.
The collective agreement for 12,000 college faculty at Ontario's 24 community colleges expired Sept. 30, 2017.
"The purpose of a strike is to put pressure on the employer. However, as it stands, college administrations have nothing to lose," the petition reads.
'Students suffer the most, yet we are not part of the conversation. We lose learning. We lose time. We demand a refund.'
The petition says many students work minimum-wage jobs to pay tuition cost's that vary between $3,800 - $7,500 for two semesters. Some are mature students with families to care for and bills to pay, it says and parents spend their hard-earned money to invest in their children's education.
'We, the students, want to be in school and we want to learn. We are paying for it. If the two bargaining teams do not consider our educational and employment prospects as motive enough to reach an agreement, then perhaps a justifiable hit to the colleges' bottom line will,' the petition states.
