The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means schools across the province are rethinking their approaches to education, but one Winnipeg school division is putting a new focus on what its families need during the crisis.
Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) superintendent Christian Michalik told 680 CJOB his division sent out surveys to students’ families, with the goal of helping fill the gaps in some key areas.
Michalik said the division will provide laptops to homes that don’t have computers so students will be able to stay in touch with their teachers and complete home assignments. “We’re not waiting to finalize the survey results, so we’ve had a couple of hundred laptops readied for students, and we know that number is going to grow in the coming