Commentary
If you are a parent whose kids are taking piano lessons, you’d better hope you don’t live in Victoria, B.C. That’s because the Sooke School District, which includes the City of Victoria and the surrounding area, is threatening to kick students out of school if they attend private lessons during regular school hours.
In an email message to parents, associate superintendent David Strange warned that students enrolled in private lessons “may not be able to continue in their neighbourhood middle school educational programming and may need to explore other options,” according to Saanich News.
Strange went on to explain that face-to-face learning is an important part of the educational process. He suggested that there was no easy way for students to catch up when they regularly miss in-person classes. According to Strange, middle schools in his district “are not able to support the learning needs of students that are regularly missing instruction to attend private programs and private academies and will not be able to provide missing work and additional instruction for catch up.”…