The Toronto District School Board has postponed the start of its virtual schooling until Sept. 22, citing growing numbers of online students. Canada's largest school board, which was slated to start online learning on Thursday, said Monday that the number of online students has gone from approximately 66,000 to more than 72,000 since last Tuesday. Bird says as cases of COVID-19 continue to climb, the school board is already seeing an increase in people wanting to switch to virtual school. "We have nearly 250,000 students in the TDSB and now more than 72,000 of them are taking part in virtual school. "It became clear over the weekend, especially with increasing numbers, staffing a Virtual School of this size — larger than the total enrolment of most school boards in Ontario — was not going to be possible in time for Thursday," the memo said.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2020 20:34 UTC