TORONTO – As school-aged children prepare for online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and parents say it’ll be an imperfect process as they figure out how to work with each family’s needs.
Elementary-age children, parents say, need more time and supervision than high school students, who also start e-learning on Monday but are often able to manage online assignments independently.
Erin D’Intino, who has a five-year-old daughter in kindergarten, said it took planning with her husband to make sure their daughter maintains some sort of routine. “They need to get up in the morning, have their breakfast, brush their teeth and get dressed, because that’s what we do and that sets the tone,” said D’Intino, who also has a