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By Darrell Greer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Kivalliq News To say the new land skills program handbook for Nunavut schools is a total dud in the eyes of a former educator would be a an understatement. Mike Shouldice of Rankin Inlet said the new handbook on land skills and school trips will essentially end the land skills program. The former president of Nunavut Arctic College said the expectations of the new handbook, approved by cabinet and scheduled to go to print in the coming month, are totally unrealistic. \u201cIn my opinion, this will essentially kill the land skills program and any cultural learning and content,” he said. \u201cWho the heck wrote this, somebody in the federal government? \u201cIt is risk management within the Government of Nunavut and Education is pushing… <\/p>\n

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By Darrell Greer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Kivalliq News To say the new land skills program handbook for Nunavut schools is a total dud in the eyes of a former educator would be a an understatement. Mike Shouldice of Rankin Inlet said the new handbook on land skills and school trips will essentially end the land skills program. The former president of Nunavut Arctic College said the expectations of the new handbook, approved by cabinet and scheduled to go to print in the coming month, are totally unrealistic. \u201cIn my opinion, this will essentially kill the land skills program and any cultural learning and content,” he said. \u201cWho the heck wrote this, somebody in the federal government? \u201cIt is risk management within the Government of Nunavut and Education is pushing... <\/p>\n

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