A new course partnership between Salisbury’s J.M.A. Armstrong High School and MFC Training gives students a chance to take flight – and take the controls.Students in a new aviation course at J.M.A Armstrong High School in Salisbury went up on a plane at the Moncton Flight College. (Alexandre Silberman/CBC)Pilot Tim Holt guided a group of…
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From debates over masking in schools to students repeatedly bounced between in-person and remote learning, many parents feel Canadian policy-makers have let our children down during the pandemic. Students are seen in an Alberta classroom in January. Two-thirds of parent respondents of a new Angus Reid Institute study, conducted in partnership with CBC News, said they feel…
A 16-year-old pleaded not guilty in Montreal youth court to attempted murder, possession of a weapon and conspiracy to commit assault in relation to the incident outside St. Thomas high school in Montreal’s West Island.The victim was stabbed in the upper body during an altercation that took place Tuesday just outside St. Thomas High School…
Dozens of school divisions in Alberta’s smaller cities and rural area are wrestling with how to handle provincial pressure to adopt a proof of vaccination mandate for staff.St. Paul Education superintendent Glen Brodziak says the public debate over mandating staff proof of vaccination has been angry and difficult to deal with. (CBC)Dozens of the province’s…
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Mother sues school board for failing to protect her daughter amid rape threats, racial slurs
by Sue JonesHaving experienced anti-Black racism herself while growing up in the same area, Natasha Shakespeare feels heartbroken that her 13-year-old is suffering from the same 30 years later: targeted for abuse at school because she’s Black and receiving inadequate support from school leaders in response.
As children head back to school – after a rather grey and wet summer- they will find that rules around self-isolation have changed. Other rules are changing in parts of the UK, with Scotland changing the rules just before children return to school. Here, we look at what the new rules are and how they’ll…
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School makes masks part of dress code to evade Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s face coverings ban
by ava360Masks will be part of one school district’s dress code this fall in order to bypass Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates. The Paris Independent School District announced the amendment to its dress code on Tuesday, the same day that the Republican governor disclosed he had tested positive for the coronavirus. Abbott issued…
For a school the size of Parkview Elementary in Sicamous, B.C., having two or three sets of twins is not uncommon. However, the school of 205 students had six sets of twins to begin the 2021-22 school year — a figure that caught principal Carla Schneider by surprise when she looked at the class lists.Cody and Levi Clark,…
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1980s book on residential school experiences was rejected by first publisher who didn’t believe it
by Sue JonesCelia Haig-Brown’s book Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School was one of the first texts to describe the experiences of residential school survivors from their perspectives.People pay their respects at a memorial in Vancouver after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported that ground-penetrating radar scans revealed dozens of remains at the former…
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