Langley, B.C., teachers defy district order to work from another school during power outage Amy Synesael, president of the Shortreed Parents Advisory Council penned a letter to Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside asking her to direct all B.C.
school districts to suspend similar policies during COVID-19.“We’re asking the ministry to consider providing a directive to school districts to allow staff to work from home when there’s situations like this such as power outages or snow days, because we know they’re perfectly capable of working from home, and its much safer,” she said.The Shortreed teachers allege they were given the option of using up their one paid day off if they didn’t want to re-deploy to another school, and that if they.