Friday, April 19, 2024

Most Ontario students to continue virtual learning, just 7 regions to return to class

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Most students across the province will continue virtual learning.

School boards in just seven public health units in southern Ontario will be able to return to in-person learning on Monday.

Those public health units are:

  • Grey Bruce
  • Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge
  • Hastings and Prince Edward Counties
  • Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington
  • Leeds, Grenville and Lanark
  • Peterborough
  • Renfrew County

Schools in all other southern Ontario public health units will continue remote learning.

In late December, the government announced that all schools would be closed to in-person learning for the first week of the winter term.

That closure was later extended to Jan. 25 for all schools in southern Ontario while students in northern Ontario returned to physical classrooms on Jan. 11.

The government then declared a state of emergency on Jan. 12 and extended online learning for schools in five hot spots, including Hamilton, until Feb. 10.

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