Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement on June 2.
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Remote learning will continue to finish off the 2020-2021 school year for both elementary and secondary school students.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says modelling shows returning students to their classrooms this month could lead to thousands of new COVID-19 cases each day; a risk Ford isn’t willing to take.
“Schools will not be returning to in-class learning until the fall. I know this is very difficult news. It was a hard choice to make. But I will not take unnecessary risks with our children. We are fighting a third wave driven by COVID-19 variants.”