Ford government’s back-to-school plan allows teams, clubs even as worries over fourth wave mount
Will Madge, 15, a grade 10 student in Toronto, practices his puck handling skills in his backyard. Since beginning high school, he has not been able to play sports at all due to COVID-19.Will Madge, 15, always thought he would play on his high-school hockey team, skating with his buddies while friends cheered in the stands. Instead, a year of pandemic-disrupted learning meant he was hardly able to figure out where classrooms were located, let alone put on the school colours at the rink.
The provincial guidelines will require masks in classrooms but allow both indoor and outdoor “high-contact sports,” including hockey. This despite concerns that heavy breathing, and mixing students in indoor environments, could accelerate the spread of the more contagious Delta variant ofplans have some teachers who are supposed to return to coaching concerned.
“People tend to just look at this about COVID, but we need to think about the well-being of kids in general,” he said. “If you balance the risks related to COVID versus the risks of the harms of the interventions that we use to mitigate COVID, I think some loosening is reasonable.” The sport, Ms. Loeffler said, welcomes girls of all shapes and sizes – as well to those who have never played rugby before – and so gives many of her players, some of whom might otherwise drift away from team sports, a much-needed confidence boost.Andy Wood, a Toronto parent who has a son in high school and a daughter in middle school, said his children are looking forward to participating in extracurricular activities again, with his son excited to try football and join the debate club. But Mr.
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