Posted: Feb 09, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 9
Students are shown at a Toronto school in October 2020. Schools have been shut down in Toronto, Peel Region and York Region since before Christmas due to skyrocketing COVID-19 case numbers. In-class learning will resume on Tues. Feb. 16. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Published Friday, January 15, 2021 12:11PM EST Tanya Bogatin s once pristine home is no longer quite so organized, and she s waiting a little longer between loads of laundry, but it s no skin off her back. Her priorities have shifted now that she ll be helping her two young kids attend classes from their home in Vaughan, Ont., for another month. “Things are gonna fall to the backburner,” she said. “I tell my kids, don t stress about it . relax, relax. We re happy, we re safe, we re healthy.” With online learning extended until late January across southern Ontario, and for even longer in Toronto, York, Peel and Windsor-Essex, parents like Bogatin are finding a litany of strategies to manage all their responsibilities.
ETFO president: It makes no sense for students to return to class with province under lockdown
by news staff
Last Updated Jan 6, 2021 at 1:56 pm EDT
Elementary students are tentatively slated to return to their classrooms on January 11. Jerry Wang
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is asking medical officers of health in public health units across the province to reconsider the resumption of in-class learning next week.
President Sam Hammond says
“Educators know that in-person learning provides the most effective and equitable learning environment, but unfortunately we are at the height of this pandemic. It makes no sense for the government to send students, teachers and education workers back to school while the province is locked for another two to three weeks,” Hammond said on Wednesday.
Posted: Jan 02, 2021 9:10 PM ET | Last Updated: January 3
A white car painted with slogans takes part in a car caravan in Toronto organized by education workers in Ontario on Saturday.(CBC)
Education workers converged on Queen s Park in their vehicles on Saturday, honking their horns and driving around the legislative grounds as part of a car caravan that demanded more pandemic support for families.
Ontario Education Workers United, a grassroots group that says it is determined to fight for a strong, publicly funded education system from kindergarten to Grade 12, organized the afternoon demonstration.
The group wants the province to provide financial help to parents, students and workers who will be struggling when public schools close as part of the provincial lockdown starting on Monday.