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.
“If 2020 taught me anything it’s not to think anything is impossible,” Reid, 36, told The Epoch Times, speaking of the erosion of freedoms the world experienced during the pandemic. “I think a lot of us didn’t realize it until it was—I don’t want to say ‘too late,’ but it was.”…