School district 72 has not yet decided, but there have been discussions about the possibility of offering outdoor high school courses on Cortes Island.
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Can Cortes Island students continue their schooling in Powell River?
Nine Cortes Island students are waiting to hear whether they will have to move to Campbell River during their high school years. This has been the norm for many Cortes families. Others sent their children to a boarding house in Campbell River during the week. The parents of nine Cortes students found another option. They send their children to a Powell River school two days a week, through the Partners in Education program (PIE), and teach them at home the other three days.
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Hands-on learning welcomes Nature As Teacher
CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Cortes Island School just started its new twice weekly program called Nature As Teacher, providing unique experiential learning to the students, and is enthusiastically seeking guest presenters.
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Reclaiming her Indigenous name
Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative
For Danita Bilozaze of Łuechok Túe, using her family’s original Indigenous name is an essential part of preserving her connection to culture. So Bilozaze undertook a mission to get her Indigenous family name on all of her official identification, an effort that took many difficult months.
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Extended pandemic feeds anxieties of Campbell River youth
Campbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Reporter
Lately, when 15-year-old K (name withheld to protect identity) arrives outside her school in Campbell River, nervousness sets in.
Her legs start shaking, her entire body begins to tremble and she gives way to uncontrollable sobbing.
Her parents eventually turn the car around and take her back home, to try again the next day.
The heightened anxiety attacks are new for both K and her parents, especially because their daughter is an above average student and has never had a problem going to school until a couple months ago, says K’s mother.
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