With more than 70 per cent of its eligible population vaccinated, Canada’s approach for sending children back to the classroom would appear more straightforward than NSW’s current wrestle with a similar issue.
However, the daily COVID-19 case tally in Canada has exceeded 1000 for the past few weeks. Several provinces centralized online learning a year ago and, for the new school year, parents could select online or in-person learning for children early this month — before the escalation. The children would be at a risk of getting the disease and even making a new spread of it.
While the availability of online learning varies between provinces and schools, an absence of approved vaccines for children under 12 and vaccination rates among teachers and school personnel have made parents wary. Parents have to make the choice if they are willing to take a risk and have the children go to school or to have them register for online schooling.
The Toronto district school board, the country’s largest has made a point and asked parents to…
