According to the plan, high school students will be divided into two cohorts that will alternate between two and three days a week of in-class learning. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board released details of its back-to-school plan Monday, and buried deep within the information was the fact that high school students will be returning to the classroom for as few as five hours a week. Chiarelli, whose daughter is set to attend Grade 10 at Nepean High School, found out about the schedule when OCDSB trustee Mark Fisher tweeted it on Wednesday. 1:09Huda Hassoun said she'd already deciding to have her son, Jaad Syed, attend classes in person at John McCrae Secondary School in Barrhaven, but news of the shorter-than-expected school days forced her to reconsider. WATCH | School board trustee says pushing back start of school year is an option:Mark Fisher, a school trustee with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, says that unless parents and administrators have full confidence in the back-to-school plan, pushing the start of the school year could be an option.

Source: CBC News August 12, 2020 19:45 UTC