We asked families of disabled children and youth about #BackToSchool in #bced, in light of the #Omicron variant. They want overwhelmingly for their children to not be left out and excluded from their education. 1/?
Families need information, choice, flexibility, and protection for their children. Many families of the most medically vulnerable students want a delayed start date, booster vaccinations for staff and these parents, 2nd shots for medically vulnerable 5-11 year olds, 2/?
Parents of disabled kids want expedited work on ventilation in #bced and transparency about this status in schools, as well as about exposures - a return to swift notifications. 3/?
Limit the number of staff working 1:1 in proximity with medically vulnerable students. Provide staffing support in home when students cannot safely come to school. #AllMeansAll 4/?
Bring back the temporary flexible hybrid/home learning programs in #bced districts, as students will be in and out of school and need to continue learning. Work to improve these programs and make multi-modal learning permanent. @JM_Whiteside 5/?
Open BC schools, as was done in April of 2020, to the most vulnerable students and the children of essential workers, first. 6/?
Bring back the guidance guaranteeing 5 days a week, full time education to disabled students. Otherwise they will be first #excluded if staff become sick in large numbers. #bced 7/?
There's more, certainly. This survey from August 2020 still mostly holds true. But #Omicron is a new, highly contagious variant that appears to impact children and as with all the variants, disabled children, youth and adults are most at risk. #bced bcedaccess.com/2020/08/18/sur… 8/8
Here's our letter sent today: bcedaccess.com/blog/
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