"They're the largest class sizes in the whole system," Hammond said of grades 4 to 8. “Children haven’t been driving this pandemic, and they shouldn’t be bearing its consequences.”Our children need help, and parents need help, and e-learning is a joke. Yes. CAND ER/COOP. This government has not been kind to education: it rewound to a retrograde sex-ed curriculum, before relenting, and pushed the teachers into strikes that were only solved under the pressure of the pandemic.It has been laudably cautious on schools, but that was the easy part. Stay up-to-date and in-the-know by subscribing to one of our newsletters “Erring too much on the side of freedom and complacency is dangerous, knowing that the influenza season is predictable, and it’s going to happen, and we know the risk that poses. Of course, there was more to it than that.
Maybe not every child, but most of them.“I strongly believe children need to return to school in September, not as a mandated thing, but by September it will be six months since the shutdown,” says Dr. Nisha Thampi, a pediatric infectious disease consultant and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa.“And we’ve seen an astronomical increase in our health consults.
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"Minister, you have two weeks," Sam Hammond said. “There’s this fetishization of creating a sense of normality for children … which is completely mismatched to this moment.”“It’s a start,” said Dr. Thampi. And not terribly well thought out,” says Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, an infectious disease specialist and ICU doctor at Toronto Western Hospital. He believes the data shows kids don’t transmit the disease enough to outweigh everything else.“We haven’t had a single child die in Canada. Children suffer the disease at a much lower level; research indicates that below the age of nine or 10 they are less likely to contract it, though Fisman has data showing that children under 10 had the highest test positivity rate in Ontario over the last month. New data shows racialized and lower-income communities in Toronto are being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ETFO President Sam Hammond says they made the decision because the Ford government has initiated no dates for Central talks. "ETFO's longest-serving president said he can't discuss bargaining details other than to say that talks "are respectful and going well," and currently focused on determining issues to be covered at the central negotiating table.A flyer posted on his union's website sets several goals, including class size caps in all grades, additional special education supports and "real salary increases and increases to all compensation, including benefits.