The Ontario Ministry of Education (MoE) had issued, based on advice from Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and the experts at the COVID-19 Command Table, a Ministerial Order to close all publicly funded schools in Ontario for two weeks following March break. This means that Ontario schools will be closed from March 14 through to April 5, 2020. Early childhood programs operating in public schools will also be closed during this time.

Preschool programs and daycare centers that run independently of public schools, like ours, are not governed by the MoE order to close. Taking all the relevant medical information into account in conjunction with our closure policy, Stanley’s Preschool has decided to suspend our programs for the same period of time: March 14 – April 5.