By Pepper Parr
August 19th, 2021
BURLINGTON, ON
The Back to School advertising almost assures you that everything is going to work out.
Many parents aren’t all that sure.
The province changes the rules almost daily sewing confusion rather than clarification in the minds of parents.
The Halton District School Board will be holding an on-line Town Hall Meeting on August 26th at 7:00 pm.
Anyone can participate. The Gazette will pass along the coordinates just as soon as we have the details.
HDSB Superintendent Terri Blackwell will handle the setting up of the process that will allow parents to change the mode of teaching they want for their children. In a classroom on on-line virtually.
Board Superintendent Terri Blackwell is stick handling the event that will have the Halton Medial Officer of Health Dr. Hamidah Meghani answering questions live.
People will have an opportunity to send in their questions; the event is to be recorded and available the day after for those who are out of town.
The Board of Education Trustees will hold a meeting on September 1st – this will be the first time the public gets to see the newly appointed Director of Education Cedric Ennis who is spending his time meeting with people in the Region and getting the feel of the District and its schools.
Parents will decide how they want their children taught: In a classroom on virtually on-line.
The Board policy and plans this years’ is to give parents an opportunity to change from one mode to another on September 9th.
Parents have until September 16 to decide if they want to change modes.
The actual change will take place on October 12.
The Board has to take the data they receive and re-jig the distribution of teachers and prepare for the change.
“We’ve done this before” said Superintendent Blackwell,” it’s just a matter of moving resources around.”
