More Media Coverage of the Stress and Uncertainty facing Parents of Students with Disabilities on the Eve of the Labour Day Weekend – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
On the eve of the Labour Day weekend, parents of a third of a million students with disabilities in Ontario remain very anxious about what their children will face as schools re-open in Ontario over the next days. The Ford Government has still announced no comprehensive plans to ensure that students with disabilities are fully and safely included in school re-openings, even though it has been repeatedly advised that such a plan is needed. School boards, teachers and principals are all scrambling in the absence of that plan. This scrambling is made all the more hectic as the Ford Government made more announcements on school re-opening late in the summer which should have been made weeks ago.