VANCOUVER Teachers at two Surrey Schools staged a “walk-in” Wednesday morning, after a faster-spreading variant of COVID-19 was detected in local school communities. It was meant to draw attention to some of the health and safety concerns staff, students, and parents have been raising for months. Staff at A.H.P. Matthew and Maple Green elementary schools wore red and marched around their schools just before the morning bell. “The conditions are not the greatest for teachers and that we think there probably should be a masks for all mandate coming down from the province, “ said Deborah Jackson, a teacher at A.H.P Matthew that helped organize the walk-in.
Teachers at two Surrey Schools are staging a “walk-in” Wednesday morning, after a faster-spreading variant of COVID-19 was detected in local school communities.
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