Beyhan Farhadi, a post-doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Education at 快播视频, discusses the relationship between educational policy, online learning, and equity during COVID-19. Farhadi says 鈥渢he push for online learning is going to result in a lack of access to in-person programming.鈥
"Let's begin with the fact that online聽learning was perhaps most taken advantage of by聽people who could take their kids聽elsewhere,聽maybe to聽the cottage,聽and set them up on the Wi-Fi and they聽could learn and all of that is wonderful, but we聽know that聽isn't most people in this province," says Farhadi,聽"The push for more and more online聽education will mean that for most families聽in Ontario,聽it's going to result in a lack of access to聽in-person programming and shortcuts to public聽education."
"With an opt-out option,聽you can only opt-out if you've聽got聽an option to learn in person," continues Farhadi, "But even if you opt-out, you risk losing the funding.聽I think this is one instance where聽what聽we're hearing doesn't really match what reality is."
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