Ontario unveils plan to reopen schools in September. Here's what you need to know

Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce released the plan on Thursday, just six weeks before the start of the new school year.

"We were the first province to make the difficult, but necessary, decision to close schools back in March," Ford said Thursday. "This decision put strain on families but now looking back, I know we made the right choice."Elementary school children in kindergarten through to Grade 8 will return to school five days per week across Ontario for a full day, which includes recess and lunch, with no changes to class sizes.

Specialized teachers, like French teachers, will still be able to go into classrooms to provide programming for students. Secondary schools in designated boards will open on an adapted model, with class cohorts of approximately 15 students. There are 24 schools boards on the designated list, which include Toronto, Toronto Catholic, Peel, Dufferin-Peel Catholic, York, York Catholic, Durham, Durham Catholic, Halton, Halton Catholic, Waterloo, Waterloo Catholic, Thames Valley, London District Catholic, Ottawa-Carleton, Ottawa Catholic, Hamilton-Wentworth, Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic, Niagara, Niagara Catholic, Greater Essex Country, Windsor-Essex Catholic, Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est and Conseil des écoles...

How would you know how to do it Oh I know cancel all the classes and only teach to the lowest common denominator black students. You’ve illuminated education knowledge doesn’t matter to your department let’s illuminate school. All kids can become drug dealers and thugs

Kids wearing masks in any sort of effective way. Look to BC

This is a purely economical decision which is NOT supported by any scientific data. Check European children cases and see the evidence of Covid spread in 5-18 year olds. Frustrating to see such carelessness, lack of planning. STOP playing with our children’s lives! FireLecce

Two words: total shitshow.

Swedish Modelers: 'Our model predicts that, using median infection-fatality-rate estimates, at least 96,000 deaths would occur by 1 July without mitigation.' Reality: 5,730 deaths occurred by July 29 without lockdowns.

This is ridiculous. Nothing is more important than saving lives. We don’t understand COVID yet, plus it’s evolving. Thinking we can manage COVID in schools (bars, gyms etc.) is a fool’s errand. Kids are adaptable, they’ll rebound when it’s safe to re-open.

Reckless Politicians If I had school aged children no way would I be sending them to school when Covid increases every day Will Canadians hold these people to account when the virus takes Canadian children's lives or is their clauses so they go free for killing our children

Cue the teachers complaining about how tough they have it.... as they sit at home for the 6th month on full pay.. but please tell the unemployed and struggling people of Ontario how bad this decision is for you. They’ll say it’s about the students though lol

What is happening with child cares within schools?! How will children remain in cohorts and attend child care as well

You can’t keep a class of kids focused for longer than 30 minutes. How are you going to keep everyone’s mask on their face and keep everyone safe, if a class of kindergarteners

Idiots. Politicians should be indicted and sent to prison for child abuse. Even doctors say kids should not wear masks. When a child faints and hits their head and dies maybe Ford can be indicted for attemted murder. What kind of scum is this.

I know not everyone agrees but as a parent of 5, and a school board employee, I am very happy with this announcement.

What a gong show! Voted for Ford, et all, not going to happen next time.

It will be a messy return.

About about kids in k-3? Masks not mandatory and no cohorting? What about them? Hanging out to dry!

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