I actually live within the map area used to illustrate this post (I'm in the purple area) so this story is hitting close to home. In a nutshell, "In addition to teaching in-person and online students simultaneously, UCDSB teachers are also responsible for preparing and marking materials for children doing asynchronous independent learning, both online and paper-based." I echo Tony Bates's sentiment that this is a really really bad idea. I can speak from experience - for fifteen years while in New Brunswick I was party to 'blended' staff meetings, mostly online in Ottawa with a few of us struggling with poor sound and video and missing out on all the side discussion. So when a kid complains that "everyone else is going to PhysEd and I can't..." I feel it. Bates links to a Globe and Mail article, which has a spamwall, but there's a CBC article about the same story.
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