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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 49.8 - schooling during pandemic Emby Blum-Payne, in grade 3, spends time with her mom, Krystal Payne, outside their family home on Wednesday. Documentary photos of family, Krystal Payne, her husband Andy Blum, her Grade 3 daughter Emby Blum-Payne and grandparent Edward Payne, who lives with them, for story on remote schooling taken outside their home Wednesday. Story info: The family are doing remote schooling because they have a grandparent (Edward Payne) in the home who is high-risk. So far, they have yet to hear any details about what remote schooling will look like for Grade 3 Emby -- and it's already mid-September! For now, Payne (who is an archivist and is currently working from home) bought her daughter homeschool materials to work on as they wait for the remote learning program to start. 49.8 VIRUS THREE FAMILIES: We are following three families — a homeschooling family, remote learning family and in-class instruction family — this year to document their learning curves during the pandemic. The first edition of the series is set to run Sept. 19. In it, the families will explain their thought-process in choosing a learning path this year and their feelings, two weeks into the school year. MAGGIE Reporter - Maggie Sept 16th, 2020