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“All is moving in the right direction,” he said.
“It would be great if students, in my mind, could be back in for those three or four weeks before the summer break.”
Other public health officials, doctors and those who work with children have also told Ford what they think.
“We write to express our full and unequivocal support for the reopening of schools as essential for children,” states a joint letter from the CEO of The Hospital for Sick Children and the chairperson of the Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health to Education Minister Stephen Lecce last week.
Published Thursday, May 27, 2021 6:14AM EDT Catherine Monias can t wait for the day she sees the buses pull up outside her office and the kids from her remote Manitoba First Nation stream back into the hallways following months of their schools being forced closed by COVID-19. But it will be slightly different for the children from the Garden Hill First Nation, a fly-in community about 600 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. Monias said education leaders have had to make one of the toughest decisions since the pandemic began: all students will be repeating their grade in the coming school year. “It s been rough,” said Monias, the Indigenous community s education director.
Catherine Monias can t wait for the day she sees the buses pull up outside her office and the kids from her remote Manitoba First Nation stream back into the hallways following months of their . . .
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A cleaned classroom is seen during a media tour of Hastings Elementary school in Vancouver, Wednesday, September 2, 2020. Catherine Monias canât wait for the day she sees the buses pull up outside her office and the kids of her remote Manitoba First Nation stream back into the hallways after schools were closed for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward May 27, 2021 - 1:00 AM
Catherine Monias can t wait for the day she sees the buses pull up outside her office and the kids from her remote Manitoba First Nation stream back into the hallways following months of their schools being forced closed by COVID-19.
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