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Ottawa’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches has a reassuring message for Ottawa parents, students and staff worried about the safety of schools as the rate of COVID-19 rises sharply in the city.
Transmission of the virus at schools is low, Etches maintains. Students usually contract the virus at home or in the community, from soccer games to barbecues.
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Etches met with administrators from all four Ottawa school boards Monday, and plans to attend a virtual meeting of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board on Tuesday night to answer questions.
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Officials at Ottawa’s largest school board say they hope to make changes as early as June to the pandemic high school schedule that many students and their parents say is causing academic overload and stress.
More than 1,900 people have signed a petition and 83 people signed an open letter to the board asking for changes to the quadmester scheduling and a return to full-time classes for secondary students as soon as possible at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
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