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"L is for Lost" ... For Ontario's students, 2020 started with teacher's embroiled in labour disputes. Then a pandemic hit and disrupted the norm for students of all ages. Will this be a lost year or are there valuable lessons to be learned?https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/12/05/you-have-people-in-crisis-teaching-people-in-crisis-how-covid-19-upended-the-lives-of-millions-of-ontario-children.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Education&utm_content=the-lost-year …

With no direction from the Ministry of Education until late summer, boards were left scrambling to make in-person schools safe and build virtual schools from scratch. The result was chaos.https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/12/05/you-have-people-in-crisis-teaching-people-in-crisis-how-covid-19-upended-the-lives-of-millions-of-ontario-children.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Education&utm_content=the-lost-year …

Face-to-face classes were not physically distanced; classrooms lacked proper ventilation; teachers protested a lack of protective gear. Within days, schools were hit with COVID-19 outbreaks.https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/12/05/you-have-people-in-crisis-teaching-people-in-crisis-how-covid-19-upended-the-lives-of-millions-of-ontario-children.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Education&utm_content=the-lost-year …

“It’s been a lost year in many ways,” said Fernanda Yanchapaxi, an organizer with the advocacy group Ontario Parent Action Network. “Maybe it’s not a lost year academically for those kids, but it’s certainly unhealthy and stressful.https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/12/05/you-have-people-in-crisis-teaching-people-in-crisis-how-covid-19-upended-the-lives-of-millions-of-ontario-children.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Education&utm_content=the-lost-year …

“The education system was not perfect before, but with COVID-19, the gaps have broadened ... And I’m not sure that when the kids are all reunited again … that they will all be at the same place academically, emotionally or even psychologically.”https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/12/05/you-have-people-in-crisis-teaching-people-in-crisis-how-covid-19-upended-the-lives-of-millions-of-ontario-children.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Education&utm_content=the-lost-year …