@purplehippo They're never thinking of the children, or at least not in that sense.  They're holding the children's future hostage, until their demands are meant.

I have, personally, pushed a couple times here movements to have elementary and high school teachers deemed an essential service (so they cannot walk off the job).  When I was a kid the teachers were constantly on strike and it affected my grades significantly because I wasn't getting the teaching I needed.  "Think of the children" indeed.