Parents, advocates for children with disabilities share concerns over school reopening plans

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As Canada prepares to reopen most of its schools, some parents and advocates across the country are voicing safety concerns for children with disabilities returning to the classroom.

Dartmouth, N.S. resident Meredith Tasiopoulos says her five-year-old son Eli, who has special needs, is excited to return to school. However, she still isn’t sure what returning to school will look like for him.

“We don’t want him to be excluded and we’ve worked so hard for our kids to be included and that would be a major step back,” she said. “He loves school, Eli loves school so much.” “They have the right to be fully and safely included in the return to school this fall, that won't happen by accident,” Lepofsky said.

“Last year, my younger daughter's class had 36 to 38 kids in it over the course of a year. There's no room in the classroom to spread out,” Kyla Stack, a concerned mother protesting in Calgary, told CTV News.

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fordnation and Sflecce chose to protect an antiquated system instead of protecting students They had 6mths to redirect resources so that parents could keep their children home Instead they tossed it out as an option knowing damn well most parents could not afford to do so

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