'It's very frustrating': Calgary schools dealing with staffing, substitute teacher shortages

Calgary's largest school board continues to deal with staffing shortages as schools struggle to find substitute teachers to fill absences. A letter was sent home to guardians of students at Colonel Irvine School in the city's northwest, outlining the issues filling absences, which has led to some classes being consolidated. "For us as a school, it is worse now staffing-wise then it has been anytime over the past two years," read the email. "We have been collapsing PE classes so that we can use a