COVID-19 in classrooms.In an open letter to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry published on Tuesday, members of the Surrey Teachers’ Association said “we are not safe.”“In normal times, overcrowding is the source of almost every problem and tension in our school district, and in the pandemic the overcrowding is hazardous,” the letter said.The association, which represents 6,000 teachers, asked for schools to get the same safety measures as public indoor spaces.
After latest outbreak, Surrey teachers call for mandatory masks, smaller classes “We need to have a mask mandate,” the letter said.“We need to be able to physically distance students by reducing classroom density to 50 per cent.