COVID-19 rules during the break.As of Monday morning, more than 60,000 parents have signed an online petition asking the province to keep schools closed for another two weeks.It also asks parents to pull their kids out of school on the first scheduled day of classes in protest.There is also concern about the new variant of the illness detected in B.C.
and that it could spread more easily in the school system. 20K sign petition calling on B.C. to delay return to school by 2 weeks Matt Westphal, president of the Surrey Teachers Association, told Global News he has already heard from a lot of teachers Monday morning about how they did not sleep well Sunday night and how they are really anxious about school resuming.[ Sign up for our Health.