With an eye on back-to-school during the COVID-19 pandemic, some education advocates in the Greater Toronto Area's York and Peel regions have been calling for school boards to say no to hybrid learning. The hybrid model forces educators to teach online and in-person at the same time.
In May, the York Region District School Board announced it would be adopting a hybrid model where by students attending face-to-face and students attending remotely will be taught simultaneously by the same educators. The Peel District School Board plans to follow the same model in secondary schools. Other boards across the province are weighing options now that families have opted for in-person or virtual schooling.
What these decisions don't show is that the hybrid learning plan for schooling in the COVID-19 pandemic is more about politics than what's best for kids.
