school, students are learning tough new lessons from the Omicron variant.Saskatchewan was the only province not to delay school or move classes to online learning at the start year.
Most schools used remote education in previous waves but the latest strain appears to be the most transmissible yet.Now COVID-19 is spreading, and students are getting sick, grappling with responsibility and confronting mortality.
Sask. union leaders call for restrictions as COVID-19 cases surge “I think people, especially my age group, need to realize that it’s not about like, ‘Oh, I’m going to survive and I’m not going to get sick,’” Caedy Smith said.“It’s more about, ‘Who are you going to spread it to?’ That is, (someone who is) immunocompromised or somebody that will not just heal as quickly as you.”Smith is a Grade 10 student at Centennial Collegiate high school.
She was receiving between 15 and 20 alerts a day that students and staff were contracting the disease before the school moved to online learning for the remainder of the week.She was told she was a close contact of someone who tested positive recently and has been taking rapid antigen tests.