Querying health experts on common risks
CBC surveyed 170 health experts on their approach to risk levels from previously common activities like going to restaurants or getting a haircut, and made some infographics displaying the results.
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Alison Cummins 13:54 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
Where’s “send my kids to school”?
Kate 15:59 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
Quebec has just released this.
Alison Cummins 16:10 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
It appears compulsory. What if people want to homeschool, say if there are vulnerable people in the home?
Ian 16:34 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
You can take your kid out of school at any time and homeschool if you want, you just need to formally notify their current school board. I did it with my kid last year with zero pushback.
Alison Cummins 17:51 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
They didn’t mention this option though, and they didn’t offer distance-learning support. Either your kid shows up at school or you’re on your own.
JaneyB 20:07 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
That directive is as of July 3. I would consider it a wishful sketch at this point. There might not be distance-learning support for K-12 right now but outbreaks are inevitable. Parents will panic, kids will be pulled out and the online learning support will have to be created. The govt might not be saying it but of course, they must be anticipating it, as are the schools. The teachers I know are themselves hesitant to even go in to teach.
McGill and Concordia are still planning for mostly online classes in the fall. I guess we’ll basically watch the rest of the world experiment and plan our response for the winter term.
Ian 20:52 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
I am teaching ContEd intensives online at CEGEP and we are already seeing problems with some students not having a decent laptop, or headphones, or a mic, or unlimited high speed internet. I’ve had moms calling me, crying because their kid has to get an incomplete. I’ve had students miss half their classes because they used up their data, an they can only be in “class” on wifi in the Timmy’s parking lot. I can only imagine it will be far worse with primary age kids trying to do distance learning.
Kevin 22:09 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
The last I heard, Montreal high schools were planning on students being present only half the time.
Of course, we are currently in the period where nobody is working at any school, so we’ll see how they scramble in 3-4 weeks.
Michael Black 23:08 on 2020-07-20 Permalink
But I noticed back to school items in this week’s Jean Coutu flyer. No internet equioment, just notebooks and gluesticks.
dwgs 08:56 on 2020-07-21 Permalink
Sec 1 through 3 will be at school every day but stay in the same class among small groups (6 I think) while the teachers move from class to class. I assume there will be a few groups of 6 in each class.
Sec 4 and 5 will likely attend every second day.