After a week of being back to in-person learning, a handful of London-area schools are near the 30 per cent absence threshold that requires school officials to notify the health unit.
LONDON, ONT. Neighbours surrounding an overcrowded school in the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) are upset with a plan to create a school bus access road next to their backyards. The Oxford Park Community Association (OPCA) says the plan threatens neighbours, traffic and even what could be one of the tallest vintage trees of its type in Ontario. OPCA members say they were not consulted about the road plan in advance. It would run from Eagle Heights Public School on Oxford Street through the schoolyard to Upper Avenue. Member Sandra Miller says her group only discovered details when they noted someone measuring the site.
THE STUDENT Jenna Clunas is happy to be back in class at Saunders Secondary in London. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
It’s been a school year of unprecedented interruptions, but 14-year-old Jenna Clunas has managed to muddle through.
“It’s has been pretty weird year, but I find it pretty easy to adjust,” the soft-spoken London ninth-grader says of her high school debut, nearly a year now into the pandemic. “It’s going pretty good.”
Clunas and a London elementary school teacher, Jennifer Young, have been sharing their stories with The Free Press since since the school year began last fall and they returned to the classroom, Clunas to Saunders secondary school one of the area’s largest.