Toronto’s Rich Neighbourhoods Opt for In-Person School

On Saturday, the Globe and Mail reported that high-income parents in Toronto and across Canada are <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-race-income-and-opportunity-hoarding-will-shape-canadas-back/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">choosing to form “learning pods”</a> rather than send their children to in-person school this fall. But our analysis of <a href="https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Return-to-School/Learning-and-Instruction/Registration-Results" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">registration survey results released by TDSB</a> last Thursday shows that parents in the most economically advantaged schools overwhelmingly opted for in-person rather than virtual school. In contrast, a smaller share of parents in middle- and lower-income schools preferred in-person school.<a href="https://medium.com/@katyn_and_omar/torontos-rich-neighbourhoods-opt-for-in-person-school-8161dc6cc13b#377b" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">¹</a> The graph below shows the percent of elementary school<a href="https://medium.com/@katyn_and_omar/torontos-rich-neighbourhoods-opt-for-in-person-school-8161dc6cc13b#0785" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">²</a> parents who selected in-person learning by the school’s Learning Opportunities Index (LOI). LOI is TDSB’s composite measure of schools’ “external challenges,” based on neighbourhood census data for the students attending the school. <a href="https://medium.com/@katyn_and_omar/torontos-rich-neighbourhoods-opt-for-in-person-school-8161dc6cc13b">Learn More</a>