Union says parents don't have confidence in back-to-school plan, even as TDSB survey suggests majority will still opt for in-class learning
which indicated that 70 per cent of the parents of elementary school students plan to send their children back to the classroom this month while 30 per cent intend to have their children take part in virtual leaning instead. Among secondary school parents, 79 per cent said that their children would attend classes in person while 21 per cent said that they would learn remotely.
He said that the survey just underscores the fact that most of them don’t actually have a choice when it comes to sending their children back to school in the coming weeks. He said that while experts have spoken of a need to lower class sizes across the board, the province has largely failed to do that. School buses, he said, will also continue to “operate at capacity in some cases with two or three students per seat.”
That has lead Ontario’s four education unions, including ETFO, to file complaints with the labour relations board over what they say is the province’s failure to take “every reasonable precaution” to protect their members. “It is not something that can be done collectively. It is very specific to individual situations but our members have that right and will in their professional judgement exercise that right if they feel the need to do that,” he said.Ford has claimed that his government has done “everything” possible to ensure the safe resumption of in-person classes and that the province’s education unions “just want to fight.
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