Since shutting down schools, the province has launched an online learning portal to help students study at home and promised high school seniors that they will still graduate this spring
Ontario schools will stay closed for the rest of the school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday that returning children to the classroom right now isn’t worth the risk.
“One thing I will never do is take unnecessary risks when it comes to our children,” Ford said. “That’s why after careful consideration, after consulting with health experts, it is clear that we cannot open schools at this time. I’m just not going to risk it.” Ford said Ontario is working hard to ensure that child care centres can reopen once the province gets to its second stage of reopening, but that decision will be left to local public health units.
“At the same time, we have a plan to ensure that our children’s education can continue outside of the classroom,” Ford said. Lecce said the province will seek the advice of Ontario’s chief medical officer of health to determine how many students should be in a class and what appropriate spacing should be for this fall.
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