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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said about his government’s plan to send children back to school during the COVID-19 pandemic that “our children belong in the classroom, with their friends and teachers, learning.” According to a recent poll by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies, forty-one per cent of all respondents said they would be more worried about personally contracting COVID-19 if schools reopen; the CBC has reported that as a result of funding agreements between the province of Ontario and it’s school boards, classroom sizes will be maintained at pre-pandemic levels. This effectively means that you could see classrooms filled with grades 4, 5, 6, and 7. With amplified health concerns, and exacerbated concerns about the quality of education and classroom size from before the pandemic, join us and Austin Jafri, Joy Henderson, and Dr. Beyhan Farhadi as we discuss the debacle of education justice amidst the global pandemic.