Post-secondary students don’t have a choice. Whether or not they are physically or financially able to return to in-person classes in the next month, whether they even feel safe doing so, they must.To Jwalit Bharwani, a Ryerson mechanical engineering student, the school’s return-to-campus plan feels premature, inconsiderate even. All students are expected to be back Feb. 28, with some courses beginning in-person classes starting Monday.
Being in a classroom, where he would be perpetually concerned for his health, would be uncomfortable, Bharwani said. So too would the journey there. For Bharwani, and thousands of students like him who commute to school, there would be daily encounters with people who could be infectious. “Where are they going to find a lease for two months?” said Bharwani. “How much money would they have to pay? No landlord is going to give them that, Ryerson residence isn’t going to give them that. What happens to international students? They spend thousands on a flight for two months of school that could go back online at any time?’
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