
By Teresa Pierre, Ph.D.
Parents As First Educators (PAFE)
There have been a variety of reactions to the Ontario Ministry of Education’s back to school plan, both positive and negative.
Some say the plan is too strict, others that it’s too lenient.
To many, it’s a great relief that Ontario is committing to in-person learning for children when school returns next week, because last April, May and June, when paediatric experts were urging Ontario to re-open schools, they remained closed.
When considered in the context of the extremely cautious mindset that has dominated Ontario’s response to COVID-19, and how difficult that response has made life for Ontario’s children, the commitment to in-class learning, and the relative return to normalcy that may bring, is a welcome prospect.
Then again, there certainly have been other influences at play in the long lockdown of Ontario schools, and some of them would seem to have had more to do with conflict of interest than with caution.
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