Commentary The 2021–2022 school year was supposed to be better than the year before. With vaccination rates climbing and the worst of the pandemic seemingly over, everyone hoped that schools would look much more like normal. Sadly, this is not the case, at least not in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). That’s because school boards in the GTA have largely opted for a hybrid model of instruction where teachers teach both in-person and online students simultaneously. If this sounds untenable, that’s because it is. If there’s one thing we learned last year, it’s that there’s a world of a difference between in-person learning and remote learning. When schools were thrust into remote learning, teachers had to completely redesign their approach to teaching. There was no way they could keep teaching the same way they did before. Now that schools are back in-person, teachers had hoped to reconnect with all their …