KITCHENER While most students in Southern Ontario are buckling down for at least two more weeks of online learning, students with special needs will be returning to the classroom. Jason and Cameron Chard, who are both severe on the autism scale, are just two of the many students who will be back to in-person learning on Monday. To learn, for them, is one on one with a teacher or an EA at school, said their mother Sandra Medeiros. She and their father Ryan Chard add that the in-person learning will bring much needed stability and routine back into their lives.
Ontario’s four major teachers’ unions are calling on the provincial government to develop “specific benchmarks” that would trigger any moves between virtual and in-person learning, saying that “a clear and consistent plan will reduce the chaos and confusion.”
Author of the article: Standard-Freeholder staff
Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020 • December 28, 2020 • 2 minute read • Cornwall s first baby to be born in 2020, Muhammad Rayyan Khurram being held by his father Zahid less the day after his birth on Thursday January 2, 2020 in Cornwall, Ont. Alan S. Hale/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network Photo by Alan S. Hale /Alan S. Hale/Standard-Freeholder
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Cornwall’s first baby of the 2020s was Muhammad Rayyan Khurram.
Muhammad is the fourth child of Fizza and Zahid Khurram, and he was born in the early evening on Jan.1, the city’s first baby of the year – and of the decade.