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Poll result: Richmond News readers concerned about sending kids back to school

As children return to school today across Richmond, it seems readers are still not confident about the whole Omicron situation
Alan Campbell
Alan Campbell
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Children return to school today across SD38, after a delay of a week to prepare for a plan for COVID-19.

Meanwhile, students at BCIT have started a petition to delay the return on in-person classes.

Richmond News polled 341 Richmond News readers and asked the question: How do you feel about your kids going back to school next week?

The poll ran from 1/6/2022 to 1/10/2022. Of the 341 votes, we can determine that 98 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Relieved, I'm sure they will be perfectly safe 23.47 % local, 25.22 % total    
They need to go back, but I wish it was in cohorts like before 24.49 % local, 18.48 % total    
Not sure, it seems a bit risky given the Omicron spread 33.67 % local, 40.76 % total    
Not happy at all, I will be keeping them at home until it's safe 18.37 % local, 15.54 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 5.3%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.