homeschooling for the first time this week, after deciding sending her 12-year-old back to class wasn’t worth the risk amid COVID-19.
Winnipeg schools ready for start of strangest school year in recent memory “It’s not a chance that we really wanted to take — to add more possibility of getting the virus from going to school, being surrounded by hundreds of other children,” explained Bloomfield after starting at-home lessons Wednesday.“I think there’s a lot of people who are sending their kids to school scared just because they don’t really feel like they have another option.”Bloomfield said she made the difficult decision to homeschool Quinn, who would otherwise have been starting Grade 7 at École St.