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Parents and school staff in Surrey are calling on the B.C. government to rethink its back to school plan.

Parents and teachers have expressed relief that B.C. is ordering students in Grades 4 to 12 and all school staff to wear masks.

DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press The B.C. government continues to delay acting on its commitment to provide priority vaccinations to 300,000 frontline workers, but individual health authorities are dispensing thousands of shots through an opaque approval system meant to protect people in workplaces with the highest risk of COVID-19 transmission. The province has two main streams for vaccination: Most of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are reserved for an age-based immunization program, while the AstraZeneca supply was promised to frontline workers, including teachers, grocery workers, police, f...

  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, “ s...

Amy Smart Children wearing masks sit behind screened in cubicles as they learn in their classroom after getting their pictures taken at picture day at St. Barnabas Catholic School during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette February 26, 2021 - 1:00 AM VANCOUVER - As British Columbia teachers argue for broader mask requirements in elementary schools, some families and educators say it's been easy for kids to adapt to the rules in other provinces. Heather Thompson, a special-education teacher at ...