Locked out of their elementary school during COVID, Jenn Reid’s daughters struggled to adapt to the isolation of online classes, having been deprived of all peer-to-peer interaction as mandated by the lockdowns of 2020.
The mom of three described how mandates and the devastating impacts on the girls’ well-being made the family’s decision to homeschool an easy one. It also made their stake in a piece of land in Northern Alberta the logical next step to secure a natural barrier to shrinking freedoms.