Karl Stefanovic’s ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn reveals why children SHOULD go to school during the coronavirus pandemic
Karl Stefanovic‘s ex-wife, Cassandra Thorburn, has urged for schools to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic.
The 49-year-old journalist encouraged other parents to ‘fight’ to keep their children in school because it is their last semblance of ‘normal’ life.
‘School is the only norm children have right now. If schools close they will be robbed of the last of their ‘normal’,’ she wrote on Instagram on Thursday.
‘Fight for our children’s right to be educated’ Karl Stefanovic’s ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn (pictured) urged other parents to keep their children in school on Instagram on Thursday as it is the last ‘normal’ thing left in their lives following coronavirus pandemic
Cassandra listed the reasons why she thought closing schools would ‘rob’ students of a year of their education, including the fact many parents don’t have the resources to adequately home school their children.
‘They will lose daily in-person contact with their peers, something teens need in their lives,’ she explained.
Cassandra added that parents should not allow their children to take part in sport, however, because this poses an unnecessary risk to the community.
‘If schools close they will be robbed of the last of their ‘normal’: Cassandra shared a picture of a school desk to Instagram on Thursday while urging parents to minimise contact children had with the community by not attending sport but continuing to go to school
‘But I don’t believe we should take away their access to an education. Support small businesses… and fight for our children’s right to be educated,’ she concluded.
Globally there have been more than 181,000 cases of coronavirus, with the death toll already surpassing 7,000.
As of Thursday morning, there are 568 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia.
Splitsville: Cassandra separated from Karl Stefanovic, the host of Channel Nine’s Today show, in mid 2016
Karl and Cassandra, who separated in 2016 after 21 years of marriage, are parents to sons Jackson, 20, and River, 12, and daughter Ava, 14.
She recently spoke of the emotional turmoil following her marriage breakdown on the podcast Divorce Story: Surviving Separation.
‘You get yourself out the door with the kids to go to school… I had children, they had to go to school,’ she said, recalling the months after her split with Karl.
‘You get them there. I would literally crawl to the back door and lie on the floor until it was time to pick them up again.’
Pandemic: As of Thursday morning, there are 568 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia