Several Ontario school boards are planning to continue offering virtual learning next year, forging ahead before provincial direction is set, and saying it's now more about a different mode of learning rather than a pandemic response.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board and Toronto District School Board are all set to continue remote learning in 2023-24.
Ontario decided in February 2022 to require boards to offer virtual learning for the current school year, and hasn't yet made a decision for 2023-24. But boards like the TDSB are not waiting. Gwyneth Evans is one of those parents anxiously awaiting word from the Durham board on whether it will be able to offer virtual again next year. Both of her children - one in senior kindergarten, the other in Grade 7 - are flourishing in remote learning, she said.
“ always talks about in person, it's better for the kids to be in person, it's better for their mental health to be in person,” Evans said.Elementary teachers, however, are adamantly against the option, with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario saying it is “fundamentally opposed to being used as an instructional and learning model.”
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