Share this Story: Opinion: Ontario shamelessly withholding COVID funding from private schoolsOpinion: Ontario shamelessly withholding COVID funding from private schools If your child attended a Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Greek Orthodox or any other independent school, including nonreligious ones, the school received nothing Photo by Nathan Denette/The Canadian PressArticle content The Province of Ontario has said that it is taking its responsibility to protect schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic seriously. If your child was enrolled in a public or Catholic school in Ontario, the school received full emergency COVID funding from the Ontario government. On the other hand, if your child attended a Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Greek Orthodox or any other independent school, including nonreligious ones, the school received nothing. Article content The COVID emergency funds that Ontario distributed to its schools came from the federal government’s $2-billion Safe Return to Class Fund. Second, the parents of children enrolled in independent schools, such as the Protestant schools in rural Ontario and the Orthodox Jewish schools in Toronto, tend to be strong supporters of Ontario’s Conservative government.

Source: National Post July 27, 2021 09:56 UTC