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Bumped from online lessons, staring into black screens and teachers’ voices cutting out – that’s been the education experience for some rural students in the region since learning went remote.
But two weeks in, the options to support rural families who have poor internet access and also live in cellphone dead zones are still few and far between.
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“You can hear every morning, ‘You’re glitchy, you’re getting cut out, I can’t hear you,’” Kelly Elliott said. “Everyone is struggling.”
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Posted: Jan 15, 2021 6:35 AM ET | Last Updated: January 15
While most children in the province continue at-home learning, some students with special needs are still attending classes in-person.(CBC)
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In a Jan. 7 press conference, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, announced that as COVID-19 cases and deaths rise in the province, elementary school students will not return to in-school class next week as scheduled, instead returning on Jan. 25./Screenshot from CPAC
COVID-1913 January 2021
By Sue Tiffin
On the same day the province reported a single-day record of 3,519 new cases of COVID-19, as well as a record high number of 89 deaths, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health announced elementary students in southern Ontario will not be returning to in-person learning at schools this week as scheduled. Instead, online learning will continue until Jan. 25, aligning with the plan already in place for secondary students. Elementary and secondary students in the northern part of the province will return to school as planned on Jan. 11, but the lockdown period currently in