Students travel hours, stay in hotels to get to Ontario school for the blind as residences remain shut

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Stephanie Antone has been travelling six hours a day just so her daughter can attend school in person.

Patricia Hung has spent thousands to stay in a hotel, swapping weeks on and off with her husband, to make sure their child can be in class.

And yet, they consider themselves some of the lucky ones.

The children of both parents attend W. Ross Macdonald, a Brantford school for blind, visually impaired and deaf-blind students that’s the only one of its kind in Ontario. Of the about 150 students from kindergarten through Grade 12, over half lodge there during the week and may return home on the

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