“Parents are thinking they feel like they have to pick between the safety of their children and education and not thinking it’s a fair thing, to the other spectrum of parents saying look I work full time I have to be out of the house my children need to be in school,” said Korakakis.But not all parents and teachers are worried.
About 37 per cent of parents who answered EPCA’s poll said they feel comfortable with their children heading back to in-class learning.One kindergarten teacher said the return to school is less worrying than most public tasks.“Last year when we went back in may, I was very anxious with all the sanitary measures to enforce and what not,” said Dina Henriques, a kindergarten teacher in Gatineau.