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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The Department of Education and Early Childhood Education said progress is being made on what graduation ceremonies will look like this June at N.S. high schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Violet MacLeod, spokeswoman with the department, confirmed there will be grad recognition ceremonies taking place. What those look like is still in the finalization process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Laker News asked for a progress update on discussions after having asked Dr. Robert Strang about graduations and proms in late March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MacLeod said the department\u2019s focus is on academic achievement and recognition of Bluenose student\u2019s province wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe know graduation and transition celebrations are important milestones for our students and their families,\u201d MacLeod said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur schools will hold grad recognition ceremonies to recognize academic achievements.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n However, COVID19 will play a role in the makeup of those ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is still too early to say what that will look like because of COVID, but we are discussing with Public Health officials, principals and administrators,\u201d said MacLeod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also answered a query from a parent of a graduate in the Beaver Bank area sent to The Laker News on proms, and limits around that and whether an exemption will be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPublic Health officials will establish the conditions and guidance for any events that may take place outside of school,\u201d said MacLeod. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe will share more information with our school communities as soon as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”121″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”95″] FALL RIVER: The Department of Education and Early Childhood Education said progress is being made on what graduation ceremonies will look like this June at N.S. high schools. Violet MacLeod, spokeswoman with the department, confirmed there will be grad recognition ceremonies taking place. What those look like is still in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2,1999,1961,48,2000],"class_list":["post-20739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fall-river","tag-grad-recognition-ceremonies","tag-high-schools","tag-n-s","tag-n-s-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}