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Canadian parents share relief, concern as several provinces send kids back to school

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Elementary and high school students in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Nunavut are poised to return to classrooms on Monday and Tuesday.

The Omicron wave has had an outsized impact on COVID-19 case management across the country, and several provinces are eschewing traditional case counts as a metric for the spread of the coronavirus in schools, which has led to difficult decisions for parents worried both about the safety of their children as well as the impact of virtual learning on their education and mental health.

CBC News spoke with Canadian parents about their decisions to send their kids back to

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/education-schools-return-omicron-1.6315196?cmp=rss.

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