I am Bella Morrisseau Whiskeyjack. I live in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada and I am 10 years old. I want to tell you about education before and after COVID-19 on reserves in Western Canada.
Kids and teachers knew about Coronavirus, but the kids made jokes about it, but they stopped once it got serious. Kids stopped making jokes and started talking about how people around the world were getting very sick and died from it.
Online school was difficult for me at first, but I got the hang of it after a few days of schoolwork. My classmates and I got very bored doing online school; there really wasn't anywhere to go. On some reserves, schools were shut down entirely; there was no online school. This was due to limited access to their community, which includes Internet and computer availability.
I believe that those children deserved the education that they were supposed to get. When schools reopen, those kids have to restart that school year. Online school wasn't all bad; at least some kids got an education to move on to the next year, but I think we all should have gotten that education. Let's give a huge thanks to the other schools that gave us an education and all the workers worldwide to keep us all safe.