Teachers and students in Edmonton are finding it pretty lonely not returning to classrooms together. But some messages of hope are shining through, making this first week back to empty schools a little easier for teachers.
Sweet messages were left by students, parents and family all over the doors at St. Mary Catholic School in southwest Edmonton’s Riverbend area.
Kathleen Eistetter, a Grade 5 teacher at the school, said she’s never experienced anything like it in her 30-year plus career. “I saw that the doors were covered with beautiful coloured hearts, with messages of love and joy from the children who are missing coming to their school everyday — it actually made me feel like crying,” Eistetter said. “Lots of missing you, thinking about