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July 27, 2020
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The Impact of School Closures on Children

Global research tells us that school closures disrupt the learning process and long-term outcomes of students. The adverse effects can go beyond learning loss and include implications like food insecurity or loss of access to health services that can be potentially harmful for students. As educators, you play a significant role that reaches beyond the classroom in children’s lives and you may have concerns about the effects of COVID-19 on some of your students.
 
“Children who don‘t have good social supports at home or who have mental health conditions that their school is helping to manage, need to be back in school. The risk of being out of school is that their home stability and mental health decompensate on them. In the long-term if children aren‘t given the education they need to succeed in life, it can impact them for the rest of their lives and it can even be generational,” explains Dr. Trevor Corneil, Medical Lead in the Office of the Provincial Health Officer.

As we look forward to September, we are working on adapting and refining the existing health and safety measures and protocols to allow the greatest number of children to safely return to the classroom to receive the critical support and guidance of their teachers.

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