Alisha will be sending her two children to school on monday reluctantly.
She admitted that she is not confident that the schools are safe.
Meanwhile, she’s worried about her youngest child too young to be vaccinated.
“My two children are both begging to go back school, ” said by Alisha. ” I am in a very busy period at work. It is very stressful on me. I don’t have family nearby to help, so my husband are doing it all on his own.”
Ontario announcement Wednesday was aimed at reassuring parents that schools are safer now.
Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce said: “Staff and students will receive two tests each as initial supply with over 3.9 million rapid test shipped to schools as we speak ready for january 17th.”
Instead it’s raised concerns about the new school protocols, including no longer reporting school infection numbers to the province or the parents.
Pediatric infections disease specialist Dr. Anna Banerji said: “let’s just be honest, if we’re saying, okay, we’re hoping at schools. We’re now going to measure it. So we’re just gonna throw it out there let whatever happen, and it’s just gonna blow through at the end of it. Everyone’s gonna have immunity, that is another way of doing it. But be honest about it, we don’t know.”
The lack of testing is also why savannah won’t be sending her ten year old son jackson back on Monday.
Having just recovered from Covid. Savannah has some immunity, but downs is worried about her infants son.
Savannah said: “I don’t know what I’m sending him into. I feel totally blindsided. I just feel afraid of what he could bring back into the house.”
CBC news Deana Sumanac-Johnson said: “There is one thing the experts in the government agree on vaccinating children is the best thing parents can do to protect them from severe illness.
But with only about half of ontario’s five to eleven year olds having received their first shot, the province is launching school based vaccine clinics in hopes of increasing the uptake.”
Resource: CBC NEWS