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Publishing date: May 07, 2021 • 1 day ago • 2 minute read • Elk Island Catholic Schools superintendent Shawn Haggarty. Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday, May 4, that K-12 students in Alberta would be moving to online learning beginning Friday, May 7. That will last until May 25. File Photo Photo by Jeff Labine /Fort Saskatchewan Record
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Due to swelling case numbers, increased hospital admittance and high positivity rates, the provincial government has once again made the decision to move education online.
Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday, May 4, that K-12 students in Alberta would be moving online beginning Friday, May 7.
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LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. For most Lethbridge schools, Thursday was the last day of in-school classes until after the May long weekend. One school official described it as “a hectic dash to Monday” for teachers preparing to transition to on-line learning starting Monday. “We got a backpack full of stuff,” said Jessica Solvey, who was picking up her five-year-old daughter Charlie after her morning kindergarten class at Senator Buchanan Elementary School. “We’re ready to do some on-line, at-home learning.” Solvey said she and her husband work different shifts, so childcare won’t be a problem, but she understands the challenges that many families will be facing, including single parents.
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Three weeks ago, Katie Heidt and her husband pulled their two children from their elementary school amid soaring cases of COVID-19 over concerns for their own health. After being vaccinated, they decided to send them back to in-person learning this week.
But now they’re shifting back again after Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday evening that all K-12 students in the province would be moving online beginning Friday.
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