Teaching online classes will be mandatory in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak in schools or if a second wave causes more school closures in the fall.
In a statement to Global News, Quebec’s education minister, Jean-Francois Roberge, confirmed that teachers will have to “assure a continuity of learning” unlike in the spring when the focus of distance-learning was to simply “maintain knowledge.”“It will be mandatory to give classes from a distance,” said Francis Bouchard, the minister’s spokesperson. “In the case of the closing of a classroom, a school or several schools next (school) year.” Bouchard added that unlike last spring when “maintaining” knowledge was the focus of online learning. “The emergency protocol planned for the next school.