On any given day, over a quarter of Ontario schools don't have enough qualified teachers, according to a recently released survey by People for Education, and the Ministry of Education is calling it a national problem. Some boards in northeastern Ontario say they regularly use uncertified instructors to keep classes going.
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High schools in the district will likely be looking at a repeat of last year, sending off its graduates with a virtual convocation ceremony.
However, with the end of school still a couple of months away, school board officials are holding on to some hope that COVID case numbers will drop and there may be some provisions that allow for small groups to celebrate graduation.
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Lesleigh Dye, director of education with the District School Board of Ontario North East, said, “In January, I sent a message out to our school principals, asking them to plan for virtual graduation ceremonies for Grade 12, 6 and 8, indicating to them that if the changes in the province were such that if we could change to face-to-face, we certainly would do so.”
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