Two weeks after students returned to class following the third wave, there have been a dozen additional closures due to COVID-19 cases connected to schools.
Schools across the province reopened June 3.
Derek Mombourquette, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, says parents and kids want schools open.
“The best place for our kids is in the classroom,” he says. “If we have the opportunity to get them back to school, we will.”
Mombourquette says there’s been great uptake.
He says they’ve seen 95 per cent attendance since classes resumed.
“People had a lot of confidence in the school system,” he says. “It showed that students wanted to be back in class, to have an enrollment that high.”
11 of the closures were at ten Halifax-area schools:
-Bedford and Forsyth Education Centres (Dartmouth campus)
-Citadel High
-Duc d’Anville Elementary
-Fairview Junior High
-Graham Creighton Junior High
-Halifax West High
-Prospect Road Elementary
-Rocky Lake Junior High
-Sir John A. Macdonald High
-St. Joseph’s-Alexander McKay Elementary
