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B C Education Ministry looks to full return to classes in September

Right now, students in elementary and middle schools largely attend school full-time, although some have staggered start times, while many ­secondary schools are on a “quarter system,” where they take two in-class courses over 10 weeks, ­ending up with eight in a year.­ The goal of the system is to reduce the number of people in the school at any given time. A return to a regular schedule would be a nice change, said Jodi Whiteman, who has a son in Grade 9 at Lambrick Park Secondary and serves as secretary for the Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils. “We’ll see in the fall it’s really quite far away.”

District seeks feedback on future of Shoreline, Craigflower schools

Both schools need significant seismic upgrades and have been designated as high-priority risks. “It’s been a very long conversation with lots of differences of opinion,” said Greater Victoria School District superintendent Shelley Green. “Neither school is in very nice shape.” Four options for the two sites are under consideration: • Complete seismic upgrades for Shoreline and Craigflower. • Upgrade and expand ­Shoreline and reconfigure it for kindergarten-Grade 8, leading to the closure of Craigflower. • Complete a seismic upgrade for Shoreline and do no improvements to Craigflower. • Complete a seismic upgrade for Craigflower and do no improvements to Shoreline. The Songhees and Esquimalt Nations are very interested in the prospect of having younger children at the same school as their older siblings, said Green, adding the First Nations also want to talk about ­moving ­Indigenous languages back into Shoreline, Craigflower and Esquimalt High Scho

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