Parents are increasingly looking into home-schooling and distance-learning as alternatives to public schooling for their kids as September approaches
Furniture and files are shown at a school in Brampton, Ont., on July 23, 2020. As most provinces plan for students to return to school full-time in September, many parents are grappling with whether to send their children into classrooms.Seana Mills and her 11-year-old son, Liam, used to look forward to school resuming at summer’s end. But not this year.Her son is equally afraid of being exposed to COVID-19 at school and passing it along to Ms. Mills, who suffers from asthma.
Home-schooling seems like an impossible task with five kids to look after, and sending them to school means risking exposing her partner to the virus. Tara Nensi is planning on sending her 11-year-old son back to school, but only so long as COVID-19 cases remain stable. Elementary-school students in Ontario will remain a single cohort five days a week, and class sizes will remain at the mandated maximum levels they were at before COVID-19, the provincial government announced earlier this week. Students in Grades 4 to 12 will be required to wear a non-medical mask or face covering, while younger students will be encouraged to do so.David Fallon is too worried about his six-year-old daughter’s mental health to keep her home in isolation.
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