AMDSB students to be offered remote-learning option for the 2021-22 school year
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Local students will have the option of continuing remote-learning for the next school year.
In a letter to families, Avon Maitland District School Board Director of Education Dr. Lisa Walsh says they are hopeful the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario will be greatly reduced, or better yet, eliminated by September.
She says the AMDSB firmly believes that student’s educational needs, their learning, socialization and well-being, with their teachers and their peers in school.
However, she says they recognize not all families will be comfortable returning to face to face learning in the new school year because of personal circumstances and she says remote learning will continue to be offered as an option.
WINGHAM, ONT. While parents and students rejoice about the return of classroom learning in Middlesex, Oxford and Elgin counties, there’s no such relief in Huron-Perth, where online learning and all it’s challenges will continue indefinitely. “If our teacher glitches, then we don’t know what’s going on and since everyone has Wi-Fi issues, then it’s so confusing what’s going on half the time,” says Amelia Foreman, a Grade 6 student at Maitland River Elementary School in Wingham. Her mother, Patricia Smith, while willing to accept the government’s decision, is frustrated that Amelia and her sister aren’t heading back to class, while children in much larger communities, with higher COVID-19 numbers, are.