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Online classes begin for many Calgary students amid rising COVID-19 rate Bowness High School in northwest Calgary on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
Thousands of students in Calgary and in northern Alberta are shifting to online learning today because of rising COVID-19 infection rates.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said last week that Calgary students in grades 7 through 12 would make the move to remote classes. School divisions in Fort McMurray also announced Friday that students in those same grades would be learning from home.
LaGrange said soaring infection rates have put schools under “operational pressures,” sometimes resulting in severe staff shortages.
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