Shannon D.M. Moore is an assistant professor of social studies education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, at The University of Manitoba. Her research interests include media and digital literacies in the social studies classroom, the impacts of online learning on teachers and teaching, and the impacts of neoliberalism on public education
Privatization in public education began well before the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Nevertheless, since the beginning of the pandemic, trends of creeping privatization and marketization…