If staff and students at many Ontario universities have to show proof they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 or provide a recent negative test to be on campus, why not in the province’s high schools?
It’s a question London teacher Mary Golding is asking with the start of classes now just weeks away and the delta variant of COVID-19 pushing case numbers in the wrong direction, with most of the new cases among those who are unvaccinated.
“My biggest worry is that we’re just going to get shut down again,” she said. “We can see in the news that the numbers are climbing by the day. I’m worried that the numbers are going to spike and we’re going to get locked down again,” she said. “I can’t go back to another lockout.”
Golding has taught at Clarke Road Secondary since 2007.
She’s also a mother of two young children. When students were kept home due to COVID-19 last semester, it meant she had to teach from home but also parent her two kids while they were in classes via video…
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