The Toronto District School Board is opting for a 'modified semester' system that would see students take four courses per term.Some Ontario school boards plan to abandon the “quadmester” system for high schoolers come September, though students will still have to sit through extra-long classes.and Halton District School Board are both opting for a “modified semester” system that would see students take four courses per term, alternating which two courses they take each week.
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 spreadThe 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. The Halton District School Board, for one, has said it would prefer to offer standard semesters without the overlong classes, and that the modified semester system will allow them to switch to such a model partway through the academic year if the provincial government allows it.
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SCDSB_Schools is still planning on Quadmesters for the fall. Please call your trustees, school boards, Ministry Sflecce and your MPP mppjimwilson. Our kids deserve a return to normal this fall. They have sacrificed enough.
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