Parents who take their kids to school will be asked to stay outside or make an appointment to reduce the number of adults who don’t need to be in the building
Superintendent Chris van der Mark of the Cariboo-Chilcotin School District said in an interview these are some of the first differences families will notice, as schools across British Columbia increase capacity to more students.Schools will have consistent procedures for site access, cleaning and hygiene and physical distancing. However, exactly what that will look like will vary because every school property is different, he said.
The B.C. government is providing health and safety guidance in co-ordination with public health officials and it’s up to school districts to determine class scheduling and transportation. Even surveys aren’t necessarily good indicators of uptake. Early in the pandemic, about half of essential workers said they planned to keep sending their kids to school but only 30 per cent did, she said.
“That won’t be maybe such a big deal if most of their class returns. It will be quite a big problem if most of the class does not return.”“I’m worried about the number of hours they may be putting in,” Mooring said. Any “maybe” families have been asked to alert their school the Wednesday before they decide to return.
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