Toronto-area high school teacher Kirby Mitchell has long focused his attention on students who've been labelled as having behavioural issues, who are often racialized, marginalized and teetering on the edge of dropping out of school completely. Enrolment figures have fluctuated this school year, with students who were expected to attend missing from in-person as well as virtual classes. Teachers say the pandemic has put major stress on students' ability to learn and a number of them have simply checked out altogether. 1:58Difficult to track downMiddle school teacher Jay Williams began seeing the attendance list at his Toronto school dwindle right from the start of September. 0:48This school year has been an unpredictable roller coaster, with opening and closing of in-person classes proving disruptive for students' learning, says Ebanks, who teaches math.

Source: CBC News April 07, 2021 08:00 UTC