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The high-school schedule adopted at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board this year that has been widely criticized by some parents and students will be adjusted next fall, says director Camille Williams-Taylor.
However, things won’t return to pre-pandemic high school life. And some decisions have not been made by the Ontario Ministry of Education, including whether secondary students will continue to attend in-person classes only every other day, Williams-Taylor told trustees Tuesday.
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Winson Li says he doesn’t understand how school board politics work and can’t understand how trustees can neglect his former elementary school, in the heart of Chinatown, which sits almost empty.
Li was one of several speakers at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Tuesday pleading with trustees to save Cambridge Street Public School from a slow and steady death by declining enrolment.
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Cambridge has 55 students this year in a school built for 323. All the children in Grades 1,2 and 3 have been grouped into one class, with Grades 5 and 6 in another. There are no students in Grade 4.
OTTAWA Ottawa s medical officer of health suggests students could return to class for in-person learning before the end of the school year, as COVID-19 levels slowly decline in the capital. It s looking positive to be able to open schools towards the end of May, if the rate of COVID continues to come down in the community, said Dr. Vera Etches. All publicly funded elementary and secondary schools across Ontario have been closed since the end of the April break. Premier Doug Ford announced on April 12 that schools would be closed indefinitely amid soaring COVID-19 case counts. Our objective with schools is to reopen the schools as soon as possible, said Dr. Etches in French during a media availability after Wednesday s council meeting.