YORKTON - Students at the Yorkton Regional High School returned to in-person classes Monday.
Since Jan. 12, classes had been delivered via remote learning after the school experienced a COVID outbreak effecting 70 people and impacting 11 classrooms.
At the time Quintin Robertson, Director of Education for the Good Spirit School Division noted there were concerns with staffing numbers.
“At this point we’re fearful of a staffing shortage,” he said as he confirmed a schoolwide outbreak was declared by a local Health official with 70 cases of COVID-19 impacting 11 classrooms.
The situation looks better now, said Robertson.
“The determining factor is quality of education,” he said, adding, “we met on Friday (Jan. 21), and reviewed the cases and determined that the most effective choice was to have [the students] return.”
Robertson said the GSSD continues to monitor case numbers daily as well as monitoring the attendance of staff and students.
