By Chantal Wagner
Starting on February 1, parents can register their kids for the 2021/2022 school year, and they can once again sign up online.
This is the second year for online registrations for both the Medicine Hat Public School Division (MHPSD) and Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education (MHCBE).
The local school divisions expect registrations to be faster this year, being families already have their log-in information for the online portals.
MHPSD Superintendent Mark Davidson says about 70 percent of students registered online last year.
“We started this process before we knew that we would be moving so much of our school programming to be either dependant on or very connected to online tools. So, I think our capacity as a system to support it and families expecting that’s how it’s going to work is increasing uptake,” Davidson said.