When we went into our lockdown, our community day care centre was closed down. We don't have any community schools on our former reserve lands but we do have a tutoring centre, which was also closed down.
When we went into lockdown, all of our kids were kept home from the public school system, which many of our kids go to. They experienced some pretty harsh racism given that we were having an outbreak within the community. Even when the lockdown ended, a number of our kids were welcome to go back to school, but they experienced a lot of bullying and racism, and were called the “COVID kids” when they went back to school.
A number of parents have decided to keep their kids home. We're working on a plan to try to figure out tutoring and to get their school work to them at their home and to make sure there are proper wellness checks on those kids within the community.