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E-learning in Ontario: Follow this family as they adjust to school at home (Day 3)

Kitchener couple Carin Lowerison and Matt White are trying to support their three elementary-school age girls: Berkeley, Heidrun, and Clementine, as they learn from home during COVID-19.
Jackie Sharkey · CBC News ·
Carin Lowerison and Matt White tell CBC about schooling their three girls, Heidrun, 9, Clementine, 5, and Berkeley, 12, from home during COVID-19. The two oldest are in french immersion, which is can be tricky when only one parent is bilingual. (Submitted by: Matt White)

This week, Waterloo Region District School Board made e-learning more formal for students (and their parents.)

Teachers are sending daily assignments and even feedback to kids and their parents. 

Kitchener couple Carin Lowerison and Matt White are among many people in Ontario juggling the roles of parent, worker and now teacher amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.

But even with laid-out lesson plans, many parents are finding it much harder than they expected. 

Both Matt and Carin have a bit of experience teaching, but Matt says he's struggling to digest some of the curriculum, and break it down in a way his young daughters can understand.

On top of that, their two oldest girls are in French immersion, but only one parent speaks French.

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