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Calgary area educators mentally and physically exhausted from teaching during pandemic
CBC News sent a questionnaire to thousands of education professionals to find out how they and their students are doing in this extraordinary school year. Nearly 9,500 responded. More than 2,100 of them were from the Calgary region.
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Calgary educators say all the changes that come along with teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic have led them to feel burnt out.(Mike Symington/CBC)
CALGARY Two new Calgary high schools will be offering rapid COVID-19 tests in April, Alberta Health Services (AHS) announced Thursday in a release. Starting Thursday, students at Robert Thirsk High School will be offered rapid COVID-19 tests. Starting April 12, students at Ernest Manning High School will be offered rapid tests. Overall, AHS officials expect that tests will be made available to more than 3,000 students. In March, 952 tests were administered at two other schools, Rundle School and St. John XXIII School. Out of the 952 tests done between March 18 and 29, there were two preliminary positive tests. Rapid tests that turn up positive have to be confirmed with an additional test at an AHS assessment centre.
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With three Calgary high schools confirming COVID variants in the past three days, the province is being asked to revisit in-class protocols that are unchanged since September.
Schools were excluded from increased restrictions and closures Tuesday after Premier Jason Kenney announced a move back to Step 1 protocols, including closed indoor dining and reduced retail capacity.
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But since April 3, St. Francis, Ernest Manning and Joane Cardinal Schubert senior high schools have all sent letters home to parents about confirmed COVID variants. All are in outbreak status, with St. Francis still waiting for confirmation of variants from Alberta Health Services.