I'm a teacher here in Canada and I've seen the impact of the virus on students and staff at our high school. The students have had to move to full-time learning from home multiple times and the transition back-and-forth has been emotionally and academically difficult for them. It has also been difficult for families to accommodate full-time work, sometimes unemployment for one or both parents, plus balancing younger children suddenly having to learn from home and having to arrange childcare for them.
In many cases, mothers have essentially had no choice and had to stop working outside the home in order to care for multiple children as they learned from home. This has had financial impacts on families and also caused the women to potentially lose the seniority and hard-earned status they had achieved at work.
Thankfully the Canadian federal government has had a moderately robust COVID-19 financial support system and a strong social safety net to support our families. That said, the financial supports have slowly decreased and the government is at a bit of a crossroads - it is going to have to either restore the financial supports or potentially face backlash at the polls in a possible springtime election here. It's in a bit of a no-win situation because money does not grow on trees.
I hope everyone on here is staying safe and holding up alight.
I'm a teacher here in Canada and I've seen the impact of the virus on students and staff at our high school. The students have had to move to full-time learning from home multiple times and the transition back-and-forth has been emotionally and academically difficult for them. It has also been difficult for families to accommodate full-time work, sometimes unemployment for one or both parents, plus balancing younger children suddenly having to learn from home and having to arrange childcare for them.
In many cases, mothers have essentially had no choice and had to stop working outside the home in order to care for multiple children as they learned from home. This has had financial impacts on families and also caused the women to potentially lose the seniority and hard-earned status they had achieved at work.
Thankfully the Canadian federal government has had a moderately robust COVID-19 financial support system and a strong social safety net to support our families. That said, the financial supports have slowly decreased and the government is at a bit of a crossroads - it is going to have to either restore the financial supports or potentially face backlash at the polls in a possible springtime election here. It's in a bit of a no-win situation because money does not grow on trees.
I hope everyone on here is staying safe and holding up alight.
