Ontario’s education minister has announced elementary students at publicly funded schools won’t be going back to school until at least June 1, and those closures could be extended further if the province’s top Doctor recommends it. “We need more time.
We need to see a reduced risk to our young people and so therefore we have accepted that advice as we always have and it has given us another month of time, a bit more predictability for parents at home to know this will be the norm for the coming weeks,” explained Lecce during a media conference on Sunday at Queen’s Park.
The move comes as Ford government released its plan to get Ontario back to work as the COVID-19 curve flattens. But that plan doesn’t necessarily include sending students