Opinion: Education is a human right, but it certainly hasn’t been a COVID-19 priority

A school bus arrives carrying one student as schools outside the greater Montreal region begin to reopen their doors amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, May 11, 2020.Lauren Dobson-Hughes is a consultant specializing in gender equality and health..

These “solutions” are unacceptable. The lack of affordable child care, especially for low-income and racialized families, was already unsustainable. It is now a crisis for many. We must make the safe return to school a political and national priority. Children have been denied their legal and human rights to education for six months. There are children for whom the lockdown has been profoundly frightening, leaving them hungry and in abusive settings.

Partial reopenings won’t affect wealthier parents as much. They will be able to pay for additional child care. Our governments are not only failing children, they’re failing parents, and mothers, in particular. Women have faced the brunt of this pandemic, accounting for most of our front-line and health care workers. Women have also represented the majority of pandemic

Understand that all rights are ideals from the minds of human beings.

If teacher safety is an issue this School year due to the anticipated second wave of Covid, we should expect to see a walkout or shutdown in public and private schools. We need high-quality online solutions immediately. Big tech has global Ed-tech solutions positioned to win.

Education is not a 'right', nor are health care, housing, a job, or anything that others must provide. You can self-educate as much as you like though.

The sustaining of life is the first priority, everything else comes in second.

Comes in at 26 on list of human rights.

rexglacer 'human right'? It's not a 'right'. It's a service we pay for (through taxes or personally via private options.) When did the Globe go full socialist?

Right

So what's the suggestion? The article complains about how school reopenings will be handled in the fall but doesn't provide a single pragmatic suggestion or otherwise.

You have no right to the labour of teachers. You have no right to the labour of others to pay teachers on your behalf.

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