Some Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) trustees are pleased the board is pushing back the deadline for parents to enrol their children in school, but there's concern the start of the year should be pushed back too. Wendy Hough, the OCDSB trustee for Bay, said the board must reconsider the start of the school year. After a call on the school board to extend that deadline, the OCDSB extended it to Sunday — giving parents two extra days to decide. Hough said that school boards were rushed to make these decisions due to a delay from Ontario's Ministry of Education in providing instructions for the reopening of schools. "I don't understand why the school boards were left to make this decision so late.

Source: CBC News August 13, 2020 08:00 UTC