New poll finds 1-in-5 Ontario parents worried their child has fallen behind because of COVID, and the school has no plan to catch them up

TORONTO—20 per cent of Ontario parents are concerned their child has lost out on valuable learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that their child’s school has no plan to catch them up, according to a new Leger poll of Canadian parents of kids in K-12 conducted for the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “Ontario parents—and indeed parents across Canada—are rightly worried that the school closures and education disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic could have long lasting impacts on their child’s learning,” said Paige MacPherson, associate director of education policy at the Fraser Institute.