Manitoba wildfire evacuees starting school year in hotel rooms rather than classrooms
CBC
The new school year has started with a learning curve of a different sort for Amanda Martin, William Keeper and their family.
The couple and their three school-age children have been living in a Winnipeg hotel room since forest fires forced them out of their eastern Manitoba home community of Little Grand Rapids at the end of July. They thought they would be back home by now, but delays in restoring power on the First Nation have extended their stay. Now, alternative plans are being made to school 219 Little Grand Rapids students from kindergarten to Grade 9 who can't yet go home. Keeper says he just wants the students back "into some kind of classroom." "I don't want them falling back with their schooling and that. But they should be starting off sometime this week. They are getting something going for the kids here, which I think is good," said Keeper, with his 10-year-old son, William Jr., by his side. Little Grand Rapids band Coun. Clinton Keeper says teachers and assistants from the community who are still in Winnipeg met Friday to map out a plan for how kids will be taught.
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