A Flin Flon student with hearing deficits has had a prime chance to learn more about the world and how to communicate, thanks to a visit to a specialized school in Winnipeg.
The Flin Flon School Division (FFSD) is at a 30-year low for student enrollment this year, with all four of the schools it runs seeing lower student numbers.
Students in Flin Flon, Creighton, Denare Beach and across Canada will be saying hello once more to pencils, books and teachers’ dirty looks in the coming days.
The Flin Flon district saw the most cases of any district in the NHR aside from the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak district, where 28 new cases were found. The origins and exact location of the Flin Flon district cases - aside from them being somewhere in Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage or Sherridon - are unknown. At least one case has been directly linked to a Flin Flon school. Ruth Betts Community School announced March 5 that at least one person at the school had tested positive earlier in the week and was at the school March 2 during a period when they may have been infectious. The person was in the Wolf cohort of the school, which consists of some of the school s Grade 3, 4 and 5 students. A letter was sent out to parents and the public on the school s official Facebook account March 5.