province announced that elementary students will be learning virtually for the first week of January as part of the Ontario-wide lockdown, with no in-person classes for high school students until Jan.
25 at the earliest.The shift left some school boards scrambling to get devices ready to distribute to students, who had already gone home for the winter holidays.Manny Figueiredo, director of education for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, said the goal is to have any students who have been learning in-person and don’t currently have a device to pick one up on Monday, with classes resuming for those students only on Tuesday.