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Administrators at the Upper Canada District School Board offered parents a letter, a school-by-school chart and a coloured map to help them figure out if and when their children can head back to in-person classes.
Ontario’s education ministry has announced elementary and secondary students in seven predominately rural regions will be allowed to end remote learning at home and head back to bricks-and-mortar schools on Monday.
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In-person learning remains suspended across GTA, other PHUs to see students return to class Monday
by Lucas Casaletto
Last Updated Jan 20, 2021 at 9:24 pm EDT
Elementary students are tentatively slated to return to their classrooms on January 11. Jerry Wang
Ontario’s Education Minister says over 100,000 students from multiple Public Health Units (PHUs) including Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge, and Peterborough Public Health, among others, will return for in-person learning next week.
“On the advice from the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the government is allowing seven public health units and over 100,000 students to return to class on Monday, January 25,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement.
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The heads of the region’s two largest school boards took the province’s extension of school closures in stride this week, considering it a necessary evil.
“It’s inevitable, for one thing,” John McAllister, chairman of the Upper Canada District School Board, said Friday.
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The province announced Thursday that elementary students in Southern Ontario will continue learning virtually for two more weeks, until Jan. 25. They were slated to return to school on Monday when the Ontario government first ordered the current lockdown.
OTTAWA School resumes on Monday for tens of thousands of students in Ottawa and eastern Ontario, but students will not be returning to the classroom after the holiday break. As part of the Ontario government s lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, elementary and secondary students will not return to school in person on Jan. 4 as planned. In-person classes are scheduled to resume Monday, Jan. 11 for elementary students, and the week of Jan. 25 for secondary students. Some families have kept their children in virtual learning since September. Alicia Young said she anticipated provincewide virtual learning might come back. That’s one of the reasons why I put her in the virtual school, because I thought there might be a lot of interruptions, she told CTV News Ottawa on Sunday.
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May 1: Emergency daycare provided by the united counties is being expanded as the Ontario government increases the number of children eligible for the free service.
May 5: As the total number of COVID-related deaths in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark rises to 42, BGH CEO Nick Vlacholias says local residents should not avoid going to the ER.
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May 5: This year’s Lyndhurst Turkey Fair, slated for September, has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 7: The Upper Canada District School Board has acquired the land needed to build a new facility in Brockville, meaning the west-end project can move into the design phase.