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A Letter to Parents and Caregivers from the Ministry of Education
Dear parents,
Over the past weeks, our government announced Ontario鈥檚 plan to restrict cellphones during instructional time, remove social media from all school networks and devices, and enforce bans on vaping and cannabis on school property. We also introduced legislation to strengthen safeguards that protect your child鈥檚 privacy and keep their data secure.
We know the work continues to ensure students are focused in class, graduating with a strong command of reading, writing and math, and increasingly needed life and job skills.
Yet, the global economy has radically changed around us since the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) was last overhauled in 1999 and our government is determined to ensure our students are equipped to handle these changes.
That is why we are taking another step in our back-to-basics plan in Ontario by introducing several new policies.