WINDSOR, ONT. A high school student at Windsor Vincent Massey Secondary School has completed a survey of his peers, with an alarming number of respondents indicating their mental health has “worsened” during the pandemic. Rishi Naidu, a Grade 11 student, initially posted the survey through social media and circulated within his peer group at school. But responses started pouring in from high-schoolers across Windsor-Essex and Chatham Kent. “You’ve only got four years of high school. And going into high school, everyone’s saying man, these are going to be the best four years of your life,” Naidu says. “And now you’re missing out on all those things, and it’s taken its toll on people.”
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The union representing elementary teachers with the local Catholic school board will hold a March 17 ratification vote meeting after a tentative agreement was reached with board negotiators on Friday.
“It’s a fiscally responsible contract that acknowledges the current circumstances in which we are currently operating,” Terry Lyons, director of education with the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board, said in a statement Tuesday.
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“It includes some important improvements for our members and we will be endorsing it when we bring it to them for ratification,” said Darryl Fanick, president of the Windsor-Essex unit of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA).
Between the public and Catholic English school boards in Windsor-Essex, there are 13 active COVID-19 cases.
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There are 13 active cases between the region s Catholic and public English school boards.(Evan Mitsui/CBC) comments
Between the public and Catholic English school boards in Windsor-Essex, there are 13 active COVID-19 cases.
On Tuesday, the Greater Essex County District School Board (GECDSB) added one new case to its website, bringing the total active cases in the board to nine. To date, the board says since the start of the school year in September 2020 it has had 134 confirmed cases of the disease.
New equity group aims to tackle anti-Blackness in Windsor-Essex public schools
Founders of a committee that seeks to combat anti-Black racism in the public school board say they hope to develop strategies and foster conversations that better support Black staff and students.
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Natalie Browning-Morgan, top left, Shantelle Browning-Morgan, top right, Venus Olla, bottom left, and Amina Abdulle, bottom right are the four founders of the public board s new Black Staff Equity Alliance group. (Submitted by Amina Abdulle)