"It s a bit of a scramble to get everything out and get forms out to families and stuff like that, but we re happy that things are proceeding quickly."
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Const. Kim Carroll recalls a young girl she once had some interaction with during her job as a police officer.
Now a school resource officer (SRO), Carroll found out the girl now a teenager was a student at one of the schools where the constable works.
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“She remembered me,” Carroll says. “It’s really helped her in coming to talk to me about things that are going on at home … I think we all have success stories.”
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Feb 8, 2021 7:59 AM
Schools have had to change all kinds of things for the pandemic â from recess times to semester schedules to band practice.
But some support workers in the schools say theyâre not protected. Jackie Christianson is the president of CUPE Local 3766, which covers about 600 support workers in the Regina public school division like education and teaching assistants.
âWe are worried. We are concerned,â said Christianson.
Christianson said most of her members are not assigned to specific cohorts like teachers are, so they could ostensibly come into contact with hundreds of students in a day.
She explained that her casual members werenât given a bubble of schools to work in, and so if they wanted full-time hours, they could be working in up to 40 schools in a month.