The back to school back and forth is ongoing here. School officially starts next week in Ontario, however latest news is that the teachers might be going on strike. It's a shit show.
We opted for online learning to start, with the option to put the kids in school in October, if all goes well. After the survey deadline, they quickly added that it will only be possible to switch if there is room... Then Doug Ford had the brilliant idea to merge classes together to fill the empty spots and save on teachers. Thus some teachers actually end up with more kids in the class than before the pandemic, leaving other class rooms empty...
One of our teachers send a picture of what the new class room is supposed to look like. 30 little desks crammed in a grid pattern, hardly 1 meter apart. There are still pretty much no details about the online learning part, not even whether it will start next week. Normal school was already postponed for another week before the potential strike was announced.
Meanwhile in Quebec, 20 teachers and 81 students in isolation just this week from multiple schools.
Meanwhile, new local cases, province wide cases trending slightly up, country wide up as well.
The 4 big ones seem to be jostling for position instead of getting rid of covid.
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