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The first reason makes some sense, but the second reason is unreasonable and inconsistent with science.

All evidence and research show that children, especially elementary school children, are not infected or spread the virus in the classroom.

As Lecce himself wrote in a recent editorial, “The overwhelming consensus is that COVID-19 is largely infected in the community, not in schools.”

This sentiment is reflected in most senior North American officials, from Dr. David Williams of Ontario to Dr. Anthony Fauci of the United States.

When kids get the COVID-19, they get it at home, they don’t tell it in an important way, and they only get a mild version of it I will.

The formal declaration of an “outbreak” in a school in Ontario can be misleading. The word scares people to be prevalent in the school, but the technical definition is that the authorities have found only two cases that they believe are relevant in the school.

According to current federal data, 425 Canadians under the age of 19 have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since March, 59 of whom have been admitted to the ICU and 3 have died.

For comparison, here’s an overview of the federal government’s 2018-2019 flu season: “1,352 pediatric inpatients, 271 ICU admissions, 10 deaths”.

Pediatrics experts have different views on the protocols that the school board should enact, but they are almost unanimous in agreeing that the greatest harm comes from not opening schools at all.

Ontario parents need to speak up now if they don’t want to close their school