“I have to commend the staff and our principals have done an amazing job, and I would like to commend the health department in being able to work quickly and briskly, in a way that will allow us to understand what manpower we will have in dealing with a classroom or two,” she said, adding that the communications with the parents is also a major key to dealing with it. “We have a highly complex communication process that involves the children that are within that classroom, any staff such as teachers or EAs, anyone who may have been affected, and staff in the whole school, any visitors to the school, and answer any questions that’s involved,” she said.
Winnipeg Free Press
Through the looking screen
Pandemic forces change in perspective for parents of young students in three Winnipeg families who can t be as concerned as they once were about their kids time online
Excessive screen-time was once the common enemy in the Milne-Karn, Parenteau and Blum-Payne households.
But the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders have given each family pause when considering each of their children’s relationships with computers.
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Kenny works on an abacus.
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Meet the Milne-Karns, the Parenteaus and the Blum-Paynes.
The
Free Press is following these three families to document their experiences in the classroom, with remote learning and home-schooling amid the uncertainty and anxiety of the pandemic.