School is back in session, but one five-year-old boy in Nanaimo, B.C., is still at home waiting to find out when he can attend classes full time.

Daniel Gardner, who is blind and has epilepsy and autism, was set to start kindergarten alongside his peers with the help of an educational assistant (EA). 

But he's been denied his full-time start to learning after the school district said it was struggling to find qualified EAs.

It's part of a wider problem of staff shortages in schools across the prov…