ICYMI - Back to school: About a dozen countries have returned kids to classrooms. What Canada can learn from them
More than a dozen countries have since fully or partially re-opened schools. As Canada’s provinces scramble to bring students back to something resembling “near-normal” learning, there are lessons to be learned from what went well — and not so well.
Alberta has vowed to open schools at “near-normal” levels for K-to-12 students come September. British Columbia is also aiming for a full return of primary and middle school students, rather than a hybrid model of part-time inclass, part-time virtual learning, that few parents want. Different countries and different school districts have taken different approaches. And not all children are equal. It’s still hard to get a feel for the true impact on transmission dynamics, “because most of what we know seems to be coming from media reports, which is less than ideal,” Greer, Canada Research Chair in population disease modelling said this week at a virtual panel discussion hosted by the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Prevention.
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