Some Metro Vancouver school districts have confirmed students will be back in class Monday if the tentative deal between B.C. teachers and the provincial government is ratified.

The Vancouver School Board said if teachers and districts approve the agreement, Sept. 22 will look much like Sept. 2 should have.

“It will be an abbreviated day. Students would report for school as they would have on Sept. 2, and they’ll take attendance and do some general first day activities,” VSB chair Patti Bacchus said.

Full classes would then resume on Tuesday.

The Surrey Board of Education also confirmed students will start classes Monday, despite a previously scheduled non-instructional day that’s being pushed back to a yet-undecided date.

That will also be a shortened day for students.

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If classes are in session, students will have already missed 14 days of school. Education Minister Peter Fassbender said this week that the province is working with districts on a plan to make up for lost time, but it’s not clear how that could be accomplished.

Bacchus said cancelling vacation days could be tricky due to various collective agreements, not to mention problematic for some parents.

“We have many families who travel on the breaks,” she said. “People have told me they’ve already booked vacations and paid for vacations.”

Adding minutes to the school day wouldn’t necessarily benefit students, Bacchus added, noting learners can only pay attention for so many minutes or hours in a day.

That idea is also unlikely to be adopted in Surrey, according to a letter Superintendent Jordan Tinney wrote to parents Wednesday.

Tinney confirmed there will likely be adjustments to the high school calendar, but couldn’t elaborate further.

“We simply don’t know the dates yet,” Tinney wrote. “At this time, it is unlikely that we will see any adjustment to the length of the school day as some have suggested.”

The Ministry of Education told CTV News that senior students on the semester system could have their first term exams pushed from January to February to split the 14 lost days between first and second semesters.

The results of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s vote are expected to be released Thursday evening around 9 p.m.

With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Mi-Jung Lee