According to a poll conducted by Léger and commissioned by the Fraser Institute in November, before the Ford government rang in the new year with school closures, nearly 80 per cent of Ontario parents of children in K-12 schools said their child had fallen behind due to government pandemic policies and the impacts of COVID-19. And one in five Ontario parents — 20 per cent — had no confidence their child’s school had a plan to catch them up.
That was November. At that point, between March 2020 and May 2021, Ontario kids had missed 19 weeks of school—the most in Canada. Now, thanks to the Ford government’s decision, Ontario children will miss at least another two weeks, with in-person learning scheduled to resume Jan. 17. That’s 21 weeks (and counting) of missed classroom learning, on top of many children missing school due to COVID isolation policies.
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