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COVID-19: Some Ontario school boards ditch ‘quadmester’ system for upcoming school year
Ontario schools to remain closed to in-person learning until September The move comes after the Ministry of Education issued a directive that school boards allow only two 150-minute classes each day in order to prevent kids from mixing with too many of their peers, for fear they might spread COVID-19.The pre-pandemic norm was 300 minutes of class time, usually divided into 60-minute periods.The quadmester system, put in place for the 2020/2021 school year, saw students take two courses at a time for a period of roughly nine weeks.Ontario’s science table says schools can safely reopen on regional basisThe Halton District School Board, for one, has said it would prefer to offer standard semesters without the overlong classes, and that the