There will be no classes on Monday at Montmorency College, management announced on Sunday. Students and staff members are however invited to a “comfort day” following the shooting near the Laval establishment on Friday.
Posted at 7:04 p.m.
This day “will allow everyone to take a step back from the events of the past week”, can we read in an email sent to the community, according to members of staff with whom The Press entertained.
“The lifting of classes will also take place at the continuing education center as well as at the fire safety complex”, we continue. “However, the members of the administrative staff will have to offer a work service. »
On Friday, hundreds of students were confined for hours at the college after gunfire injured four nearby. It was the second cegep forced to confine itself by the police on the same day, after the cegep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
Stakeholders will be present at Montmorency College from 8:30 a.m. Monday “to collect the concerns of all members of the community”, who will also have access to “information capsules” in a space arranged “in such a way as to promote appeasement “, we learn in the email.
In the afternoon, staff members will also be able to attend a support meeting and an information session given by Nicole Cuco, “a psychologist specializing in crisis intervention”.